Wilson: A Short Story

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As the day began a slimmer of light pierced his eye and as he awoke covered in sand and scrap. Wilson had looked around and saw that he was surrounded in a deserted wasteland of water and left ashore with the remains of his shattered boat. As Wilson arose he looked at the remains of his boat. And saw a glimmer of light bounce off a small rusted red trunk. Wilson came to the trunk and with a loud creek the trunk opened. The trunk held a hatchet with rust around the edges along with the tool came with 3 slightly damaged cans of tuna and a tattered map. As wilson explored the deserted island, he had found a dark and gloomy tropical forest. As wilson explored the wet and gloomy lands he came across a skeleton impaled by a curved stone spear. As

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