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Weekly Contest #369
Mariah marched into the woods with a purpose. I darkened the sky the moment she set foot on the path. She had practiced what she would say for weeks, refining it, re-memorizing it. Like an actor practicing lines that dulled into a congregant reciting a creed without meaning or emotion. She would need miles before she was ready. She gripped a small totem in her jacket pocket—a football with her high school mascot, a 25-year-old keychain with no keys. I bent the trees to obscure the sky but slipped the wind behind her, urging her on. I twisted...
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