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Jeffrey Clifford

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The Long Climb

Submitted to Contest #84

  Allie landed hard on her back, twigs snapping as the air rushed from her lungs. High above her, orange and red leaves slowly descended on her, vultures free from the broken perch above from which she fell. She rolled to her side, drawing her knees to her chest as she gasped.   She fell. But how? Allie climbed that tree every day. Every inch of bark, branch, knot, and bend that covered the old maple tree familiar. She had climbed that tree every day for how long now? Allie coughed a few more times and sat, staring up at the tree. ...

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