Heartbreak Hill

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Karl was on the final lap, approaching Heartbreak Hill in the marathon race. His breathing was already rough and scraggy, the air escaping from his tired lungs in gasps and wheezes. Karl knew that Heartbreak Hill was his toughest challenge. If he could go over this hill, today he would be the winner in the Boston Marathon. Even if he could just reach the top of the hill, then the rest of the course was downhill and fairly easy to finish.

He glanced back and saw that the runner immediately behind him, was still a distance away and that renewed his confidence. Approaching the ascent, Karl summoned up all the energy he could and began to climb the hill and finish this final challenge. He so desperately wanted to win the marathon today. Not for its prizes and riches, not for the glory. He wanted to win it only for Carol.

Sweet, charming, beautiful, petite, sexy Carol, who stood behind the finish line, holding the laurel wreath in her hands. The crowd by the side of the roads was cheering him on, and that only increased his will and stamina to win.

At last the top of the hill was nearing, in his vision. A few steps more and he would be over it. His calf muscles had started cramping, but ignoring the pain, he reconditioned his mind, to only concentrate on the hill top and willed himself to make an extra effort to go over it.

He was only a few feet away from the top now. Suddenly, he felt a hand grasp his left shoulder and pull him back. Shrugging off the hand he continued to run, but glanced back to see, how the runner behind him had managed to reach him so quickly and why was he trying to pull him back.

He was surprised to see, that the runner behind him, was now only inches away, and that this runner was no other then ...

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...avor, by His Majesty, the wise Ruler of the country.

Building and construction activity at the World’s Largest Residential Complex continued at a brisk speed, for nine months. After that the same problems encountered earlier surfaced and contractors and labor petered out. Today all activity at the plot is almost non-existent. Wait, that’s not exactly true, tumble-weeds now blow around on the site in the wind, hustling here and there, like children in a park, whilst the desert continues victoriously to reclaim the land that it had lost so abruptly to human civilization.

Carol now clearly understands, why those cranes reminded her of praying-mantises. Just like that abhorable creature that cannibalizes its lover, so also does this country do the same to the people who love it and adopt it as a replacement for their homeland.

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