Clara Plumstead

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“Reflections” by Clara Plumstead

Submitted to Contest #227

The dark, yawning shadows stifled dwindling frost from grasping the depths of the bear’s den, where a new mother dozed. Still unconscious, Zika’s head lulled against the compact foliage while her whelp pressed eagerly into her stomach, milk dripping from his chin. Yet to be labeled by the Calling, or ‘named’ as some put it, the virtuous cub was oblivious to the stillborn body that lay just inches from his paws. Not all life would make it, but he had yet to learn that lesson. For the moment, he was a carefree baby, free from the vines t...

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