Laurie Longo

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“Autumnal” by Laurie Longo

Submitted to Contest #63

By the time I stepped outside, the leaves were on fire. The embers enveloped the air and grew up inside my dying body in the same way they expanded through the sinews of the branches of the tree. These, although manufactured in the places they were planted in the city, still breathed life to the last, even to the last shred of hope and that ever lingering last thread that interwove the tip of the branch with the thinning of the stem. We would see in the Summer how the leaves would fly on their wings, the branches like fingers before we start...

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