Nicki Nance

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“Aging Out” by Nicki Nance

Submitted to Contest #218

 On the morning of my eighteenth birthday, I took a freedom walk. The heady smell of the woods invited me into a congregation of pine trees. Layers of dew-dampened fallen needles cushioned my every step. In the center of nature’s chapel, where a canopy of tightly entangled branches had turned off the sun, cool air touched my face. I swayed to the symphony of silence, safe among my new woodsy friends. No one can take that moment from me. Future perfect. I will always have been there. The memory of it sustains me when I feel as dead as I ...

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