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Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2021
Submitted to Contest #215
Note: This story contains mild foul language references to human trafficking and criminal activities. Skin crackles in the heat, never knew that one. It felt like the hard skin of baked poultry, pulled sizzling hot from an oven. Too bad it was his skin doing the sizzling. Towery looked down at his arms, the skin had darkened weeks ago, and freckles had spread like road rash. No one back home would ever recognize him. He even had those stupid freckles across his nose, the ones that vanished when he turned twelve and finally outgrew his big ...
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