Zoë Flores

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“Lungs” by Zoë Flores

Submitted to Contest #290

Deep into the Dust Bowl, farmers would save up tumbleweeds to feed their cattle during the winter. Nana likes to remind us of this every time our station wagon runs over one on the county roads. On this particular drive though, all of us piled in for the long haul to Walmart, she shuts her eyes when they roll past.We were upgraded to D3 on the drought scale yesterday and there are tumbleweeds everywhere.Step-dad Paul loads our shopping cart up with water purifiers from the camping section and argues with an employee about the out-of-stock 6-...

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