Emily Utley

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“Sandcastle Fantasies” by Emily Utley

Submitted to Contest #29

Sandcastles meticulously constructed, smoothened by cautious palms and silent fingers. Moats of liquidly filthy perfection, tainted ocean water dispersing to the surrounding landscape. Drawbridge of drowned driftwood, nestled to levelled perfection. Limp kelp crawls as ivy does, sprawled along the walls patched together with individually miniscule fragments. Jagged, smooth, pocketed pebbles stand in for windows lining halls. One of the tiered towers, with absent-minded dips littering its walls, slouches in the orange-gold light. Shells mark ...

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