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Submitted to Contest #324
The hunger pain of Matthew’s stomach woke him long before the sun rose. The clouds were pink in the sky, passing through after a long night of rain. He rolled over to look at the wall of his tiny white rock shelter. He scratched a diagonal line across four vertical ones. He knew sleep would not embrace him again, so he sat, sore from sleeping on the stone floor again. He reached for his satchel dumping the contents in front of him. Half of the emergency candle, a knife, flint, and some cordage. He tipped the satchel, gathering the last of th...
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