Content warnings: Sexual assault

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She expects the wind off the desert to be hot, to parch her lips, bring up the sweat, then dry it to salt.

But as she pulls over the foothills, and the first breaths blow in through the car’s open windows, it chills her with sudden, isolating cold.

The cold is dry. So dry her body aches for water to slake a thirst she didn’t know she had.

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This episode was read by Vanessa. She can be found here.

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Translating Arcadia is written, directed, & edited by Lee Seguinte.

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