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Submitted to Contest #160
The ear-piercing shriek of the kettle startled me, ripping me out of my dark thoughts. I blinked rapidly to help my eyes focus on my current surroundings. The expanse of nothingness was around me, well nothing but some bushes and my tent. The longer I was in the Badlands the more my thoughts twisted and cracked into depression.It's been six months since the world fell into a drought. According to the scientists something pissed off the sun and created several severe solar flares to increase Earth's temperature to dry up the skies. All the pl...
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