Patricia Restrepo

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“The Ruler of the Moon” by Patricia Restrepo

Submitted to Contest #243

For a second or maybe hours, she feels a heaviness that presses her onto a spongy-bouncy-like surface and debris poking at her back, and then a heat that rises within her starting at the sole of her feet and on through her eyes. “There is a sandstorm,” she thinks as an American flag comes into focus. " Finally,” she says faintly as her forehead is stamped by a man in a strange suit with ‘You have arrived.’The last thing she remembers is the thrill she felt seeing the joy in his eyes when she told him she was going to the moon.She didn't mean...

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