Margie Wood

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“The Jumbee Queen” by Margie Wood

Submitted to Contest #215

The Jumbee Queen ​ The bayou steams and drips. Twisted vines and sucking mud line the banks of a muddy creek. Clancy, 10, fishes in the fetid stream. He watches his line, pulled downstream by the current, unaware of a form, sleek and slithery, sliding through the water straight towards him. Suddenly an arm reaches out of the darkness beneath the bridge and jerks him out of the stream. He starts to yelp but a creaky old voice hushes him. “Cottonmouth, boy.” He sees the hea...

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