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Weekly Contest #226
It’s not a river of blood. It’s not really a river of blood. No matter what I thought, it sure looked like blood. Through the billowing smog in the sky, the sun’s white light stabbed across the river’s murky red surface. Dead fish, tinted red, bobbed in the thick ooze. Clumps of Budweiser cans, plastic Tysod food bags, and Marlboro cigarette butts, held together by black sludge dumped from the factory upriver, swirled in currents too bogged down to whirl. Bubbles floated here and there, filled with the pain and the fire and the ceaseless c...
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