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Weekly Contest #288
Namaqualand cracks open. This drought is the worst in ten years in the Great Karoo, South Africa. Eugene du Toit presses against the dry wind, his eyes narrowing towards the blue sky. No sign of any cloud. This winter is like the nine winters before, icy, dry, piercing to the very marrow of his bones. His ‘vellies’, leather boots, can’t even break the dry soil. When his great grandpa bought this farm, twenty kilometres outside Garies, more than a century ago, the rainfall was 200 millimetres (8 inches) per year. Now, his ten year old son has...
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