Marie C

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“From the Swing” by Marie C

Submitted to Contest #269

I liked the swing: we always had the swing, even when I was a girl and couldn’t reach the seat because my limbs weren’t long enough to pull myself into the seat. I liked the world from the swing best: the trees did little dancing movements that they didn’t dare when I was standing on two, solid feet. The wind didn’t brush and smooth my cheeks: the grass wasn’t so stiff and dark.It blurred, like a stretch of fabric, like my mother’s bedsheets. I couldn’t take the swing with me to school, or when I went walking down the road, or...

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