K. Z. Richards

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“Pine Valley Phoenix” by K. Z. Richards

Submitted to Contest #181

Dani stepped off the bus, and the early morning chill cut through her warmups like a knife through tissue paper. Goosebumps prickled across her skin, and her breath swirled in the glow of the floodlights that illuminated the empty race corrals. The sun still slept behind the Pine Valley mountains that lined the narrow canyon, hours away from rising, but thousands of runners had already gathered in the adjacent field, pacing, stretching, waiting. Their Mylar blankets glinted in the night, reflecting the dancing light of the fire pits they enc...

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