Glad to see you’re writing again! =D
I know it’s a shorter piece, but I still think you should double space between paragraphs. It makes it more appealing to the eye.
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…the freshly mowed hay…
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I’m pretty sure to attain the status of hay it has to already be dead. Did you mean wheat? Maybe weeds?
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The only thing that was going through my mind was what part of the trail Stephan could be on, and if he was dead.
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That’s awfully morbid. If he’s off of his drugs and done with his partying days (mostly), why is this her first thought? Could we have some kind of explanation? (Either here or further on in the story –if you continue- would be great.)
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…and life with my mom…
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Did you mean ‘live’?
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...and after that big fight we had a few months ago…
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There are a lot of ‘and’s in this sentence. I suggest editing the sentence so that it only has one.
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I didn’t look down, I was paralyzed with fear, I couldn’t even blink.
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I understand you are trying to go for fragmented thoughts here, and that’s perfect for establishing fear. However, you will probably want to make these each their own sentences instead of commas. You might also consider making them less full:
“I didn’t look down. Too paralyzed with fear. Couldn’t even blink.”
Something along those lines.
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“…Trying to give me a heart attack?
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You forgot to end the quotation is all.
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There really didn’t seem to be many grammar or spelling errors. Great job editing that.
I think you should play around with sentence structure more, though. Starting such a vast majority of your sentences with ‘I’ gets tedious after a while.
I also think there seems to be a lack of emotion for first person. When you’re writing in 1st person, you usually need to spend more time working on putting emotion into your sentences. For third person, this would have been fine.
I don’t see why you should stop. Do you like the story? If so, then I say go for it!