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Elizabeth Donovan

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Swallowed Whole

Submitted to Contest #103

When I was 10 I thought I was going to be swallowed whole by God.  I was terrified of the ocean. Fortunately, my family and I lived in one of the last surface factions on Earth. Most the rest of society claimed the bottom of the ocean as their home, great big domes of glass and recycled air shielding them from the harsh sun up here. Not so conveniently, the ocean was still very much what we land dwellers relied on for everything. The air up here had turned sour and stale, and the soil was sucked dry by overuse. Everything left is dust ...

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