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Weekly Contest #374
This story contains violent imagery and references to suicide. The skin of his face was frozen to the machine gun he’d slumped over. He had a long claw slash across his back, which had shorn right through his armored vest. He was the lucky one. All around him the ground was littered with shredded bodies and severed limbs. One officer had still been alive by the time Captain Kinkade had arrived on the scene, but he wasn’t able to talk from a punctured lung, and died before EMS could stabilize him. Kinkade could only gather what had transpire...
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