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Submitted to Contest #305
It took me a few seconds to realize that I was utterly and completely lost. The trail that I had taken to get up to the mountain seemed to have vanished into the Ocotillo and cactus, blown away like the sands. Everything was the same rocky, dry earth that I had scrapped and clawed against getting up here. The jagged red rocks were painted with stripes of crimson from my bleeding palms.This is fine, I thought to myself. I never had any intention of coming back down anyway.I looked ahead, and the view of rolling hills and mountains, endless in...
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