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Submitted to Contest #47
You have been dreading this day for a very long time. The sun is warm against your skin and there is sand between your toes: a reminder of the hour before when you had dug them deep into the soft white beach, wiggling your toes to bring them back to the surface. You had been happy. You had been having fun. A glow, outside and in, that only became obvious when the shadow took its place. It had been such a short walk from the beach to the veranda that you decided to forgo your shoes and hopped over the sharp rocks in bare feet. You hav...
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