Shadowed death

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 There. Over there. He hung there with his head slanted in the ropes gasp. His neck swollen with the restriction at the throat, his body just sways in the dry summer breeze, limp, lifeless and pale. There he will stay till the malodorous, pungent smell of decomposition smothers the nearby sheep in their sleep. Here he will rot from his bones with flesh peeling from his face. Here he will hang in the shadows till he wastes away.

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