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Submitted to Contest #323
NowBranches whip your face. Leaves crunch under your feet. You can hear your breathing, quick and strained, shuddering as you run. You are terrified. It wasn’t supposed to go like this. You trip over a protruding root in the ground, one that you couldn’t see in the light of the moon. You crash to the ground, tangling in your long skirts. You stagger back to your feet just in time to turn around. “Just let me go,” you gasp out, taking quick steps backwards The moonlight silhouettes a figure you know as well as your own. One holding a knife. 2...
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