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Weekly Contest #324
It was nearly sundown when the cowpoke rolled into the drowsy little town of Augustus, chewing on a straw of wheat. Strangers were none too strange in this little corner of the West; a great, black steam engine split the earth only five miles to the East, and to the South were the coal mines where men came to find work. People came and went with the howling wind, carrying whispers of the war in the South, all while Augustus never changed. Stagnant as the murky ponds found along the Platte River, and as plainly as the horking toads within. So...
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