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Weekly Contest #324
Not Just a Pretty fish Squashed together with six other strangers, I melted in the scorching desert breeze, scuba diving kit all donned up, ready to jump from the weather-beaten wooden platform. ‘Yallah, yallah! Go! Go!’ Captain Ahmed yelled at us divers, his long, discoloured galabeya flapping in the wind. Bent by the heavy tanks on our backs, we shuffled like penguins and, in quick succession, took the half-meter’s leap of faith that separated the boat’s platform from the shimmering surface of the sea. About to step into the tropical sea,...
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