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Pierson Carlsen

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Tall Trees and Crumbling Backroads

Submitted to Contest #48

A car crashed yesterday on the crumbling backroads of this town. Overnight, the great Pine across from Davee’s liquor mart, the one that grows at three times the pace of any other, so far from any lake, river, or aquifer, extended its roots up through the pavement, forming a natural, unmarked speed bump. So it happened. Early this morning, sweet Mary-Lynn and her scholar son were making their usual commute to that pricey private school across the valley, when they hit the root. Car flipped, bodies recovered. Cremated I expect. And the town m...

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Water and Other Luxuries

Submitted to Contest #34

On his knees and occasionally his hands, the boy wished for rain. Driest summer on record, but then again so was the last, and the one before that, too. The uneven, splintered boards on the floor of the brokedown farmhouse were becoming soft and polished by the dusty window at which he prayed. Not to God, for the boy was certain He had forgotten them. He prayed to the past. Conjuring memories of sanguine moss on the rocks of Sanity Creek, which had always run rusty red. He had never thought to ask his father why, for the water from Sanity Cr...

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