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Weekly Contest #347
It didn’t happen with a sudden, cinematic snap. Minds like Elias Vance’s don’t shatter like dropped glass; they erode. They wash away in microscopic increments, stripped by the elements of isolation and obsession until the load-bearing walls of reality dissolve into mud. The catalyst was the heat.It was mid-August, and a brutal, stagnant high-pressure system had parked itself over the valley, trapping the exhaust and humidity under a dome of dirty, brassy sky. Elias lived in a duplex that felt less like a home and more like a poorly ventil...
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