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Submitted to Contest #324
Adrian sat on the shore, forlorn and insignificant against the white, gleaming sand that cocooned his body. He clutched fistfuls of the warm sand, then let his arm hang in the air. Slowly, he unfurled his fingers, allowing the grains to slip through the cracks. Again and again. He had become a living hourglass, waiting, refusing to let it stop flowing. As long as it did, he could wait a while longer. He gazed at the horizon, at each new, darker stroke of pink staining the late afternoon sky; at its yellows and oranges disappearing below the ...
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