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Weekly Contest #348
The photograph is bad. Grainy, taken at an angle, the colors flattened by whatever light they could get down there. You can make out a bison on its side, entrails suggested more than drawn. Beside it a figure — human, or meant to be — horizontal, arms stiff, a bird's head where a face should be. To the left, a stick with a bird perched on top of it. The bird is not doing anything.He is the only man painted in the cave. He is also the worst drawing in the entire cave.Nothing else like it appears anywhere.It was painted at the bottom of a shaf...
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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