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Submitted to Contest #83
IVAN THE HERMIT They called him the hermit. He hadn’t left the island for twenty-two years except to sail tonight to the Cleveland Jetty with his unmarried younger sister. The cream sails filled with the breeze and the yacht was on a reach as if on rails. Ivan’s hand gripped the tiller, his eyes searching the coastline for the two massive Bunya pines that were said to mark the entrance to the settlement. The sound of water gurgling along the gunwales was mus...
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