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Submitted to Contest #309
They first appeared in mid-July, just as the wasps began to hollow out the grocery store awning and the county’s water-tower sprang a rust-colored leak down its northern thigh. A man in a pale beige suit emerged from the tree line behind the First Baptist overflow lot, walking upright and without visible fatigue, though the field behind him was thick with foxtail and broken beer bottles, and no road, paved or otherwise, passed within ten miles of that stretch. His suit was crisp, unsuited to the season, and his shoes gleamed with a polished ...
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