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Submitted to Contest #320
Out of the Forest By Tim D. Smith In the broiling summer of 1993, Meg, pensive, reluctant, and ready to be anywhere else, arrived at her grandmother’s home, surrounded by sad pastures and moony, brown jersey cattle. In the distance, though, rising behind the banks of a twisting stream amid drooping River Birch, a forest tempted, its toad-gray-dangerous depths beckoning. Resolved, she would explore at dusk on her first day. The Dallisgrass and Yellow Foxtail wilted low (for the promised rains had not come), mute, and watchful as she gazed int...
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