Edward Teather

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“Arthurian Bureaucracy ” by Edward Teather

Submitted to Contest #83

It was not a nice lake. The water stewed murkily. It was hemmed in by concrete. Domesticated and canalised into an ugly circle in a dingy park. The trees and sprawling roots which once covered its banks were long gone, the thick green grass now weeds and mud. Empty cans and sat where shining pebbles had. It was a sunken lake in a sunken park. The only ways to it were through dingy subways, with dirty beige tiles and a thousand unwelcome scents. One tree raised itself into the fading light, only to be hit with overpass fumes. Traffic and sire...

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