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Weekly Contest #320
As long as I can remember, my mother warned me away from the woods, as had her mother before her, and her mother before her. I never understood why, just as I've never understood why I've felt called to them, seduced by the creeping green shadows and growing vines. Maybe it was the smell, I think, contemplating my current predicament. It surrounds me now, pressing in on me. Sly and slightly musty, full of the promise of so much life. Ironic, really. Not that it matters now; I'm still here. In the dark. My life ended in the evening, when the ...
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