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Submitted to Contest #35
The morning I arrived up north a thick mist lay over the woods. Tree trunks rose ghostlike on either side of the car as I drove slowly down the narrow dirt road. Spring had arrived early this year, and the fog nestled like a warm, damp blanket over the budding trees. By the time I pulled into the clearing at the end of the road, traces of dawn were beginning to appear in the sky. I stepped out of the car, my senses immediately awash in northern Michigan: a racket of birdsong, the smell of swamp and lake water, the feel of gritty sand beneath...
Submitted to Contest #34
Seventeen years later, the hole is still there. The little house isn’t ours anymore - the walls have been repainted, the plastic stars have been pried off the bedroom ceilings, and the echoes of little girls’ laughter no longer ring through the rooms - but that hole remains in the wall, a testament to the power of imagination on a rainy day. It was the third day of rain that week. Deprived of our jungle gym, skates, and wagon rides to the park, we were getting desperate. “Please,” whined Madeline, age eight. “Just one more episode.” “No mor...
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