please stay on the trail

 

as kids we took quicksand seriously. we lived on the edge of a swamp and in the movies bad guys were always being swallowed up. course we didn’t have many paths to stay on. turned out, though, it was a burnt-out hollow in a sawmill sawdust hill that claimed one of us.

 

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3 Responses

  1. Sad tale. But a great take on the prompt! 🙂

  2. […] Joem18b at Does Writing Excuse Watching: as kids we took quicksand seriously. we lived on the edge of a swamp and in the movies bad guys […]

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