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Duane Bass

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The Face Of Venus

Duane Bass

Submitted to Contest #39

THE FACE OF VENUS It was a briskly frigid and windy day that February 16th of the year 1968. Venus shone like a newly faceted diamond of a light blue hue in the dusk of a clearly tumultuous and wintery twilight of escapades. I walked the last mile of my painfully memorized path, to the hearths of my abandon. I was thinking about the many paths that I could have taken, as a 19 year old man. I was clothed in a brittle teenaged husk, waiting for the opportunity to establish my roots, and vault up like a young shoot of wheat might, grasping an...

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