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Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2020
Submitted to Contest #35
The morning I arrived up north a thick mist lay over the woods. Tree trunks rose ghostlike on either side of the car as I drove slowly down the narrow dirt road. Spring had arrived early this year, and the fog nestled like a warm, damp blanket over the budding trees. By the time I pulled into the clearing at the end of the road, traces of dawn were beginning to appear in the sky. I stepped out of the car, my senses immediately awash in northern Michigan: a racket of birdso...
Submitted to Contest #34
Seventeen years later, the hole is still there. The little house isnβt ours anymore - the walls have been repainted, the plastic stars have been pried off the bedroom ceilings, and the echoes of little girlsβ laughter no longer ring through the rooms - but that hole remains in the wall, a testament to the power of imagination on a rainy day.
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