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Submitted to Contest #175
My fingertips almost brush yours beneath the soil, the shroud of anonymity between us, a nameless witness as a hopeful sapling of American Chestnut is plunged into the ground at my feet. The soil embraces it, our carefully selected plot of dark loam at the edge of the forest already home to a cluster of optimistic siblings. Eaten to slumbering near-extinction by a fungal blight in the late 1800s, you’re captivated by the idea of giving reality to the historical forests of mature chestnuts, towering woods as deep as the sea floating in your m...
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