By DoctorPlatypus | Doctor Platypus | 15 Oct 2020
Today's prompt was "outpost" so I was thinking about remote military locations, and loneliness. I feel like having a big vista and then putting a single figure and building on one side, nothing but landscape on the other - I feel like that sort of imbalance can evoke loneliness, so that's what I was going for here.
It's laundry day at this particular outpost.
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