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Submitted to Contest #160
What is the wildest thing you have ever seen?A winter storm?A cankerous sea?A forest on fire?Wild is beautiful. Wild is dangerous. Wild is free. -For the first time today, I have palmed a prickly cactus. The little prickly shits are everywhere. I lay prone, knowing they'll all see me if I lift an inch of my body off the dirt. Seeing me will confirm the fear of danger they drummed up six miles back when they first caught a whiff of me. The wind shifting was a sad turn of luck. Like an ambivalent toddler, the wind stopped, look...
Submitted to Contest #159
Football, they say, is a game of inches. A single dollar bill is roughly 6.14 inches long and 2.61 inches wide. If one were to stack 10,000 one-dollar bills on top of each other, that would measure 43 inches high or 3.58 feet, a shade over a yard. 1 yard, three feet, or 36 inches was the difference between putting $16,000 in my pocket and getting my hand broken with a ball pin hammer. The NFC conference championship game was decided by one yard. With 12 seconds left in the contest, the running back dove forward with the b...
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