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Submitted to Contest #339
A Cup of Tea “Mum! Mum! Wake up! The water’s at the steps.”“What time is it Jonny?”“It’s 4 a.m. I think we should wake the neighbours and tell them to come over here.”I struggled my way out of sleep, my foggy brain replaying images of the long day yesterday, and Jonny’s last words as I lay down with a migraine headache, “You rest Mum. I’ll stay up and keep watch.”Yesterday had been spent moving our vehicles off the property we lived on beside the Katherine River in Australia’s Northern Territory, to higher ground behind Springvale Homestead...
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