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One last summer

Maria Hoyle

Submitted to Contest #300

We journey along the coast, mountains poetically blue in the distance, hillsides brittle and brown up close. Everything parched, including me. Should have bought water at the airport. Forty-eight years old and still the basics of self-care elude me. The cab is air-conditioned, but that is temporary comfort – the heat is out there, waiting to mug us all. Four hours ago I was in London, rain loud on the roofs like distant applause. Now this alternative reality, where to shower is futile and underarms drip like rain-forest canopies.I lean back ...

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