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Submitted to Contest #206
In the Neolithic period of the Mediterranean, on the north coast of the African continent along the sea, a 19 year old woman named Basha lived.Β She had one child and was pregnant with the second, although both fathers were gone, one died of infection from a broken leg, and the other never returned from a fishing voyage. She lived in a medium-sized community with about 100 other people. Their main trade was fishing, but t...
Submitted to Contest #205
There was no one alive who knew that this broad, harsh savannah was once a fertile river basin. But if Aela did know, he might have cursed the earth for changing its mind about that. In Benin, 1750, Aela needed to grow his yams, and here he was forced to obey the whims of drastic seasons and his place in time, and an awful drought. As he looked over his field of silent mounds of dirt with tuber seeds buried underneath, h...
Submitted to Contest #202
It was homecoming. Not for Aaron, though, but for the school he was playing against that late September day, the leaves threatening to go to amber and gold now that all the remaining wisps of summer had finally disappeared from their hands. He scanned the field he would soon run out into, watched the rows of stadium stands filled with fans of his opposition flashing school colors and enthusiastic cheers...
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