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Submitted to Contest #178
It was cold, the mountains capped in snow and the sprawling forest pines covered in it; as a mother would lay a blanket on her child. Between the steep cliffs going down into the valley, the waters of the fjord lay still and quiet; as though the world had simply stopped. Snow had a way of deafening things, sound stopped. Everything was quiet. Dawn hadn’t even broken… I had been sitting a long while, nestled with my back to a lichen (and now snow) covered rock. I knew this rock well and it knew me; I had been coming to sit here for many ...
Submitted to Contest #34
It was always worse when it rained. It would churn up the mud, making it slippery and in this world right now slippery was dangerous; one wrong step lead to a twisted ankle. And in a world of deadly hide and seek a bad ankle meant you would probably die. Rain also brought landslides, mounds of loose earth covering things with teeth underneath. When the sky opened up and sent this grey veil down upon the land below; trees became wavering silhouettes, branches became reaching hands. You could mistake a tree for something else – or s...
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