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Submitted to Contest #99
I looked behind myself and shielded my eyes from the piercing rays. The community compound was becoming more like a distant shiny object than a facility where hundreds of people lived and protected themselves from the dangers of the sands. When they forced me to leave, they had told me that I was lucky that today was the longest day of the year, a day that would give me 17 hours before the night would come and the sand dragons would eat me whole. I did not think I was very lucky. I did not need 17 hours, now 11 hours since I was forced out, ...
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