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Submitted to Contest #53
“My popsicle is melting young man, perhaps you should get a move on eh?” said the man with the overgrown gray beard. His voice was deep and his large frame added a slight bellow to his words that I suspect was there whether he wanted to be loud or not. I looked out at the green carpeted water dotted with large cypress trees and their brown stumpy knees surrounding them. The sun was pretty high and the humidity made the air almost too thick to breath in. The old man had forced us out here at gunpoint to retrieve his stuff. I know it's out the...
“Get yer thumb outta yer ass and water those goddamn horses boy!” my daddy yelled as he rode around the corner of the barn and found me not working. I didn’t see him coming. Sloppy sloppy stupid I should have been watching better. I knew he would be back soon but I let myself get distracted by these stupid ants. Why do I like messing with ants so much? Do all kids like playing mad scientist god with insects? I shot up from the ground and started running as fast as my 11-year old skinny legs could propel me. Sweat was already pouring...
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