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Submitted to Contest #326
The jungle ate sound before it ate people. Dr. Simon Cinder had learned to listen to what it chewed. The leaves whispered their wet arithmetic; cicadas sawed the afternoon into equal parts ache and heat. Somewhere beneath the green glass canopy a slow breath rose and fell, as if the jungle itself were a sleeping lung.Cinder paused at the crest of a limestone knoll and lifted a hand for quiet. Behind him, four students froze in a jangled line of bright packs and eager faces. They were third-years and seniors from Brown University’s Joukowsky ...
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