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Submitted to Contest #308
A Difference of Degree Midsummer heat stirred thick moisture into the air and watched it blow about, whipped by an artless wind until it fell back to earth in fits and starts—leaping in mad frenzies, then gushing without warning. The river bank began to give way; a saturated chunk the size of a watermelon broke free. By the time murky swirls ate the clod of mud, five more jagged lengths of root- and worm-threaded soil had fallen. The curve of the river’s bend deepened. Tall grass on the bank lay flat. The air pressure dropped, settled into r...
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