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Weekly Contest #267
It was two months ago in early June, just before the rains started and the hot, muggy, sweltering air brought with it biting insects and wet socks. She had just landed a new job in a new city, scared and lonely, a little desperate but not wanting to show it; and so she had gone for a hike out in the woods down by the lake, nearby her new apartments that tilted and creaked like old buildings are wont to do in old towns like this one.She was walking, kind of jogging but not really, not wanting to tire herself out; and she was listening to an o...
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