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Swimming to My Mother

Franchesa Kirkpatrick

Submitted to Contest #56

Swimming to my mother in a blue lake, laughing. My body is so small and wiggles around. Could I be a fish? No telling what I look like. No mirrors in this place. I do not know how I got here at all. Is this my mother? The two of us float around the blue waves, dipping up and down. So much like sea creatures, we swim around in circles. Green weeds peek up though the water’s edge. I am being tickled by the fish that pass by me. The light on the lake twinkles in the beautiful warm water. It is breathtaking, yet I do not have...

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