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Submitted to Contest #320
The Great Thumb Fire Inside the blistering barks of sugar maples, red and silver maples, birch, black walnut and basswood trees sap bubbled and boiled, and hissed ear-cracking warnings. Zizz zik Zizz zik Zizz zik Below, field ants skreiched. Scarab beetles squealed. Their cries, pitched at a frequency so extreme only a mammal like a bear could register it, ripped through the burning forest. Crashing through a clearing on Klug Road a black bear squinted her eyes and rotated her ears. Two bawling cubs trailed her. Their mother chose the t...
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