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“No Light in the Cave” by Tulliver Lines

Submitted to Contest #68

NO LIGHT IN THE CAVE Dedicated to Jake Massee The new sun was a goldfish, more natural-looking reaching toward the shore of its deep blue tarn than higher in the overrosy sky. We must have been there, at the summit, for hours to make that observation. We were surrounded by concentric circles of forget-me-not and snowdrops, grass in our hair, and hair in what we thought was our grass. Jake said, well maybe it’s not worth remembering, but he said that we should go down following the stream, through the shoe-swallowing peat, and that we sho...

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