A damn hard one to write. Apologies for the excessively long paragraphs, but I was experimenting to achieve a particular effect. Not sure how well it turned out.
I think the overall tone worked well, and the present tense worked too. I liked the message at the end and that general feeling of urgency and almost desperation. The wording in the last paragraph got a little cumbersome at times, a bit hard to follow.
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Jim Stitzel
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