Melissa Polk

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“The Brave Green Frog” by Melissa Polk

Submitted to Contest #263

The evening chorus was the highlight of every summer night. The crickets chirped their clear song from the long grasses along the shore. Reeds rustled in harmony as the muskrat scurried on the hunt. The bullfrogs had a monopoly on the bass section while the green frogs strummed their banjo tune. The cicadas spun a rhythm to which mosquitoes hummed; so many of them that they filled out the symphony. Iphicles was a green frog and he was just waking up to his place in the chorus. He was timid and did his best to stay hidden among the reeds of ...

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