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Submitted to Contest #41
It is still on a smooth lake, the sky oozing over itself in shades of black like poison; not a sign of movement but for a quivering blade of grass by the shore. I lay my light step down to silence its warning, appearing at the water's edge. I have come to face my greatest enemy. He sleeps in the water, lurking through the mud and the murk, eating up every lily that dares rest on the surface of the lake. His eyes, yellow and menacing, are the only color on his gruesome body of grays and blacks, swarming in a tabby apparatus. I peer over the e...
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