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Submitted to Contest #340
The forest had no music, only sounds—monotonous and sudden. Kalia had been working as a forest ranger for five years now. She was the only woman ranger in that area, though statistics like that meant nothing to her. It was enough that she was doing a job she loved. Protecting the forest from illegal logging, poaching, and the unlawful dumping of industrial waste was exactly what she wanted to do. That, and raising her only son. In that, she had a great deal of help from her mother. She was trying to return to university. She had separated fr...
Submitted to Contest #339
He woke up early, but not for fishing anymore. He had recently retired and was now expecting only a barely satisfactory pension, along with a lot of free time. He had a plan, though—not to be idle or age too quickly.He opened the caffettiera and filled the bottom with cold water, stopping just below the valve. He added plenty of coffee, screwed the pot together, and placed it on the stove. Soon the coffee began bubbling, pale and foamy. It was still cold outside, mid-winter on the island, the same sea he had known so well after working on it...
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