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Submitted to Contest #30
The Censored MemoryIn 1956 I won a prize, a flip in a DH 89 biplane, a real event, the first time I'd left the ground, in this lifetime. In 1966, age twenty-three, I left my employer to travel. That company was De Havilland when I started there. I spent the summer of sixty-six in Spanish sunshine. Ronda disturbed me in a way I could not define. I moved on and soon forgot, but I still have ...
Submitted to Contest #20
25 December 1929: Crocodile River Farm - Transvaal."They're scared of me," boasted Cestshewayo."*Hennie tried to think of a reply that would elevate his status in his friend's eyes. He couldn't.Henry Claridge-Lyon's ancestry might have given him an interesting pedigree, but Ouma's** reassurances didn't mean much to a six year old. The mischievous child with sun-bleached hair looked up at his Zulu friend, four years his senior. "I'm hot. Let's go and swim in the river."A frayed rope dangled from the branch of a tree where they'd tied it, mont...
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