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Gigi Nally

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Flower Girl

Gigi Nally

Submitted to Contest #271

I fell asleep beneath the mud. I woke up reborn. Buttercup-colored canaries flutter overhead, their soft songs tickling her ears like feathers. Cicadas brighten the melodic tweedles with rhythmic chirps, pausing only when the sun dips behind the trees. Dewy grass sends a springtime scent through her nose, crisp and sweet like the first bite into a plump apple. Cool mist kisses her lips and wets her eyelashes. Water from a faraway fall gently flows downstream, caressing slick rocks and softening the edges of the bank. The stream stills only w...

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