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Weekly Contest #143
Every day I thought about throwing that plant into the water where it could never harm another person again. I was close, a few times. Going so far as dangling it over the lapping water where I stood on one of the forest hills that overlooked the lake. The waves struck the hill with ferocity each time this happened as if demanding the sacrifice I had brought. The almost too-perfect green of its leaves trembled from my fingers, its shoots seeming to wrap around my wrist to catch itself in case I dared drop it this time. And every day I didn’...
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