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Weekly Contest #320
Before that day in June when I got lost, I’d never really been to the woods. They’d always been right there, within a hundred feet from our backyard, only a small field full of wildflowers, meadow grasses and nettles separating the two. I could see them through the window of the bedroom me and my younger sister shared and often lay in bed watching them in the early mornings. Before anyone else awoke, when everything was quiet and the sun was just starting to rise. The view was so enticing to me, I felt the field and the woods tug at my soul,...
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