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Children of the Lantern

We fished close to where he supposedly drowned. Tossing lures into the black heart of the bay. Tring to fool coho and chinook but only attracting a soul. The sun retreated as old fishermen must do. Orange lanterns glowing rising to the chalk heart of dusk.

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