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Submitted to Contest #160
TW: descriptions of blood, and gore. Harriet watched the evening sky from the basement window. She had decided it was time to leave. She thought back to when the drought began, how nobody panicked at first, but you could feel the unease in the air. Then the temperature spiked to over one hundred twenty-five degrees and hovered there, never going under one twenty in the last six months. Rolling blackouts turned into complete blackouts. Finally, the panic set in, white-hot and frantic. People trampled each other to death over necessities. ...
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