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Weekly Contest #270
War and Prayer The sound of the pumping plunger of the Coleman camp stove gas cannister invades my ears, familiar as the pulse of a pump pressurizing my Sting-Ray bicycle tires, a precursor to adventures to come. I sit at the picnic table holding a fly swatter, posed like a sentinel ready to attack any intruding winged insect that lands on our campground breakfast spot. Uncle Al pumps away on the plunger, then stops and screws it back into the stove’s distinctive red tank. The back of the stove blocks my view of his work, but I hear a ...
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