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Submitted to Contest #290
It hadn’t rained for weeks. Months, in fact. Yellow grass sprawled lazily in the beating morning sun. In all directions, the sky appeared blue from horizon to horizon. Today would be another scorching day. Even the umbrella pines, used to the brutal summers, painfully arched their spines across to distribute the shade below, meagre comfort in the heavy dry air. Below it, the neighbour’s hound lazily repositioned himself, following the ever-moving outline of the shadow. The clinking of his chains broke through the cicadas’ singing. Dust cover...
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