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Submitted to Contest #325
The breeze buffets my body. My skirt whips in the wind. I can taste salt on my chapped lips. In the corner of my eye, I can see a child flying a kite. Vibrant colors of yellow, blue, red, and green flash high in the sky, like rippling fragments of stained glass. Next to him is a little girl. She is crying, likely for a turn with the colorful toy. I can faintly hear her over the waves crashing onto the shore — a high, tremulous sound swallowed by the surf.Sand squishes between my toes. I don’t know where my shoes are. The grains cling like me...
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