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The Desert Vigil

I.D. Marie

Submitted to Contest #206

Many believed that the desert was a desolate, lonely place. Miles of arid sand and sun-bleached brush interrupted only by spine-like mountains never seemed like a place for life. No, the desert seemed like a distant planet more than anything else: forbidding and alien. But life always found a way. Even when that barren land seemed built to keep the living away from the things not quite living and not quite dead. Maria had lived on her Abuela’s ranch her entire life. She was used to the scorching days followed by nights cool enough to chill...

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