Stephen Pain

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“In the Shadow of the Hills” by Stephen Pain

Submitted to Contest #63

The writer Daniel Defoe had written about the hills. There was apparently gold in them. It turned out to be fool’s gold. William Langland the fourteenth century poet had dozed off on them and dreamt an allegory. The Malvern Hills have been there for so many years, you tend to forget that they are there. On both sides of the hills there are apple trees in abundance. There might be arguments about who produces the best apples, Worcestershire or Herefordshire, however for views from the Beacon, you can’t beat the orchards of the latter, and it ...

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