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Submitted to Contest #324
CW: Death, hallucination, starvation and thirst, animal violenceThe man in the ocean gazed into the Sun. Salt caked his blistered flesh. His lips were cracked and scabbed. He had stopped counting how many days he had been drifting when the jar of fresh water had run out. It seemed pointless by then. Only the fleeting mercies of the rain would save him now.Food was not an issue; every once in a while, a fish would flop onto the remnants of his raft. Or a seabird expecting an easy meal might stray too close. He would seize the animal in his ha...
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