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Samuel Peach

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From the Treeline We Came Running

Samuel Peach

Submitted to Contest #235

I don’t know why it’s the first thing I recall, but I vividly remember thinking about my trainers as I ran that day. See, what they’d done is just beneath the shoe’s sole, the rubber was in a kinda cross-hatch pattern to keep the heel supported. I know that now, but at the time I thought they did it – get this – so that when the flimsy fabric soles wore out, you had no choice but to replace em’ right away. They’d dig right into your skin if you didn’t. Used to give you the worst blisters you’d ever seen in your life and when you’re moving li...

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