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Weekly Contest #370
The Leg Or The LifeBY SEAN A. WILLIAMSPecos was the one-legged boogeyman of New Port, a darkness that grew there like bark on a tree. To the innocent children of the village, he was the “Sweetieman,” the “Blackheart Man,” a creature lurking in the shadows, ready to snatch them from their beds. Pecos walked with a crutch carved from a tree branch, a souvenir from the night he lost his leg to the Mango River decades ago. Years later, the mountain took two toes of the good leg after a boulder fell on him. The man lived a life mar...
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