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Submitted to Contest #51
The clearing under the overpass and on top of the old railroad track was a spot to be reclaimed. It wasn’t the way Isaac remembered it, the way it had felt when he was a sophomore in high school. Private. His, hers, swimming with promise, and magic, and life. It was still overgrown as ever. Shoots of wild grasses that came to his knees had encroached even farther into the gravel barrier that protected the track from the natural forces that had always threatened to break it down. To wash away this unused, unkempt mark of ancient human engine...
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