after dark, it was still like an oven inside. so when i was offered a cot to sleep outside, i did not hesitate.
i took a paperback book and a flashlight with my cot and read a little before falling asleep. during the night, i knocked the book off the cot and onto the ground where i found it on the morning. it was lying face up, and when i picked it up i found that termites had eaten the last chapter. i never did know how that novel finished.
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