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Submitted to Contest #194
Imagine waking up on a cool, fall day where the trees are dropping their leaves and the breeze is making them patter against the windows. The day is young but the clouds refuse to let out the sun. These are the perfect days that call for the warm comfort of the food you remember from your past. The foods your family members would make for you when you're ill or to chase poor weather away. This is where we find our unassuming character, waking up to the chill of call, with an encroaching storm. Her home had an early morning chill to it as we...
Unpaved, dirt roads grew legs in four different directions as if they were trying to run from one another. Waves of untrimmed, wild grass roamed the boarders of the roads with little patches of purple-yellow flowers that contained the strength to push on. The beating sun faded a sign that stood alone with the white letters spelling out; "Santa Rosa, population, 16,531." Crackling, mechanical sound of tires approaching from afar disturbed the natives of the land. Dust settled from the mechanical creature th...
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