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Winner of Contest #320 🏆
Freezing bark scraped against my face as I balanced two-thirds of the way up an oak tree. Winter had made the branches brittle, and the rough wood cut into my bare feet. A gust lifted the branch beneath me. I dug my fingers into the trunk and pressed closer. I could hear the scratch-tap of the beetles inside the bark. An old tree. Energy swelled deep within the trunk of the oak. Most of the younger trees had pulled their magic, retreating and binding it deep underneath the sleeping earth. But the oak was holding on, fighting the bite of cold...
Submitted to Contest #319
I leaned back and pressed the ice pack to my eye. Cold relief radiated out, reducing the throb to a welcome numbness. I eased out a breath. Something tapped my leg. I squinted at the school nurse.Mr Garcia held out another pack, one eyebrow raised. “For your hand.”I winced and glanced at my knuckles, bleeding and starting to swell. “Thanks.” “Let me guess, I should see the other guy?”I almost smiled but felt the telltale sting as it pulled at the split in my lip, and grimaced instead. I shouldn’t have hit him.Mr Garcia’s face darkened. “Ryan...
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