Short Shorts III

Death Row or Death Valley

Come through the gap- I’ll let you through.
It’s time to escape!
No need to collect your stuff, precious things.
Leave them. Leave them and flee!
He asks, “Why are you doing this?”
To feel the blistering sun, smell the baked clay, to hear the dust screaming through the valley.
“I’m safe here,” he says. “I’ll take my chances.”

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