Sydney Sullivan

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“Firefly Girls” by Sydney Sullivan

Submitted to Contest #217

We plan a sleepover together, a secret between the two of us. We go, to a home neither one of us belong in but one of us inhabits, dreaming of the girlhood that awaits. You imagine a pillow fight, and I, a make-believe scene where it’s the two of us against the world and there we are in the center of it.  We are much too old for our past loves; the fairies in the yard have packed up and gone, and I’ve misplaced the jar for collecting fireflies at dusk. There’s no need for magic, I say, and after all don’t you feel how time stops every...

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