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Submitted to Contest #75
It is almost pinching my eyes and everything feels dizzy at once. Eventually, it settles in the too-bright sunlight. The grains of sand feel cold between my fingers. Water of the ocean is touching my feet and running away like a child, trying to make me run after it. Something feels odd and wrong about this nostalgia overwhelming inside me; still I force my steps forward when suddenly it comes to my realization that I am tied with ropes tightened around my wrists and ankles. The other end of the ropes is far from my vision, as if they’re end...
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