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Submitted to Contest #96
I can’t go on. I can feel my breath slipping away as my legs hit the ground. I can’t contain it. My head is pounding and every bone in my body is telling me to stop. I don’t. I can’t. My arm shines red under the sun as my sunburn and peeling skin remains out for everyone to see. Except that doesn’t matter. Because I am completely alone. The heat is beginning to sting as sweat finds its way into my eyes. I’m almost there. I collapse onto a rock unable to move a single muscle. I carry a small backpack containing only the bare necessiti...
The sweet smell of the blossoming flowers fills the warm May breeze. Or at least that's what I heard. Funny how less than a year ago, I had done the same thing every day of my life. I woke up in a small apartment, I went to a school that my mother could barely afford and I worked a job with a crappy boss. Seven months. That was the last time I saw the sun. That was the last time I saw another person; and here's how it happened. The small grey Volkswagen pulled into the parking lot of the cafe. In this town, there is only one cafe. One ...
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