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Weekly Contest #361
*Contains mature themes and sensitive content involving a teenager. August 1985. Summer was ending. The Alabama heat wasn’t about to give out. All that month, she came home from majorette practice, sweated clean through her PHS t-shirt. Her hair stuck flat to the back of her neck, damp and matted like one of those newborn kittens they’d found in the backyard shed. Her legs had that deep, tired ache from marching the practice field over and over. One, two, three, four. Pivot left. Toss. Kick. Catch. Mr. Watkins yelling, “Watch your spa...
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