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Submitted to Contest #168
Derailed By Harriett M. ClarkeThe grisly bodies dismembered from the horrendous impact lay bare and exposed before his brown eyes. Perched on a dirt mound above the dismantled body parts he stared wide eyed into a precipice of darkness below never beheld by most boys his age. He tried not to focus on the pungent smell of feces, urine and raw blood as he felt himself tilt forward falling as he gasped for air, clawing at the swiftly moving space between him and the dead bodies giving his stomach a heave and a hoo, lurching into an abyss of not...
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