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Submitted to Contest #74
“Leave,” they told him.“How long?” he asked.“A year,” they told him.He was no idiot. He knew a year was three hundred sixty-five days.On the first day, he carved a tally mark on the wall of the small, pitiful shack they had built him. It had been a long day. The journey to this strange, distant place, his struggle to light a fire without a match, the realization that he was really, truly alone -- it piled up on a man, weighing down on his shoulders and making his heart work overtime.He stared at the tally mark, and said aloud to himself, “On...
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