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Submitted to Contest #52
I awoke from my sleep slowly. As my heavy eyelids opened, I surveyed my surroundings. Everything seemed in place: my backpack still hung from a tree about 20 feet away; the sticks and twigs I had scattered across my temporary campsite were unbroken; nothing was caught in the perimeter “fence” I had crafted from several bungee cords and empty cans; and I was still alive and nestled in the thick branches of the tree I fell asleep in. I sat for a few minutes, huddled in my sleeping bag and wrapped in tarps while I listened to the...
Submitted to Contest #50
On the last afternoon of summer vacation, she sat in the grass with her legs crossed in front of her and looked at the small treehouse that was awkwardly shoved into the junction of two gnarled branches and the towering trunk to which several thin boards were nailed for use as a ladder. Shielding her eyes from the sun, she looked up to the doorway of the treehouse and watched the curtain that hung in place of a door flap wildly in the wind. As she stared, she remembered how it used to be red and neat, but the sun had faded most of it to a du...
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