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The Old HunterTo the Hadza of East Africa.

One of my abiding memories is of, when I worked in a music store a day when and old man stood on the street corner. His black hair was tinged with white. His shirt hung from his shoulders like a dog wearing a human's clothes. When he shifted his feet, they seemed cumbersome inside the shoes, as if made from blocks of wood.

He was on the street corner when I arrived for work, but it was raining, and I barely noticed him. As I worked, the morning sun dried his clothes. When I went for lunch, he had not moved.

He stared down the street, almost unblinkingly. When I returned for the afternoon, I thought I saw tea
Citizen 4,893,046The girl was smiling. Rain mingled with her dark hair as it ran down her cheeks. Her grey pleated skirt and jumper were black from the water.

She sat on the iron parapet of the road bridge, her legs swinging out above the silken black waters below. The cold light of a curtainless window illuminated her pale dirt grey skin. In her hand she held a razor, which she used to slice open the back of her hand.

Blood blossomed and turned translucent pink as it mixed with the water, creating swirls across her hand before dropping to the expanse below. Her smile flashed into a grimace of pain for a second. She stopped slicing her hand and used her thu
Just Google It MKII
AutophobeX49923 sat at his desk. It was dim in the windowless room, the only light coming from the glow of his computer screen. His eyes barely blinked as they darted to and fro; scanning the monitor. He was searching the Google Database for information on life at the turn of the millennium.

He'd been shocked at first, but his initial reaction was replaced by an ignorant contempt for those who had lived a hundred and fifty years ago. Making friends was performed in person, and people travelled from their homes to learn. The fact that it was often frowned upon to meet people in person, having only known them from the internet had sent tremor

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`Infinite-Heart Feb 22, 2013   General Artist
This is extremely beautiful.
I love the lovely reflections and water.
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~MetalMagpie Feb 24, 2012  Hobbyist Writer
Lovely reflections on the water. Very still. :)
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~Backsackandjack Feb 11, 2012
It does have a rather nice mythical quality to it, bet it was freezing though.
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`PlasticusForkus Feb 12, 2012
It was pretty finger numbing :nod:
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~No-pretext Feb 11, 2012
Fairy land I tells ye!
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`PlasticusForkus Feb 14, 2012
Pretty much 8-)
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