Emma Elias

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“After Sixty Years” by Emma Elias

Submitted to Contest #265

Sixty years. It had been sixty years since Aida had breathed such unpolluted air into frail and disease ridden lungs, sixty years since she had smelt the blend of fresh pine and olive groves, sixty years since she had stepped foot in the village of her birth. The gravel rolled beneath her boots, she had been much more nimble, much more lithe the last time she had walked this path – or rather, the last time she had run this path, clutching her younger brothers shaking hand and following their father through the night – red and yellow flashes ...

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