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Weekly Contest #346
The embankment shouldn't have been there.Aleksei had worked this corridor twice before, checking survey markers for the pipeline company, and he knew the ground. Swamp to the north. Larch forest to the south. A service road that became a suggestion and then became nothing. He had turned the truck around at the same place both times, where the ruts filled with black water and the birch thinned to scrub.But the ground had changed. Or he had misread it. Either way, the embankment was there — a raised causeway of packed earth and gravel running ...
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