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Zuri Davenport

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Relationship with The Queen City: Complicated

Submitted to Contest #85

Clouds lift me higher into the sky. Wisps of soft fluff wrap my body in cool comfort. The slow ascent into the ethers above proves a slight wind that is like a balm alongside the unimaginable warmth of my personal cloud transport. Just as I break above the top of the clouds and begin to see the stratosphere, a bird, stark dark against the white bulbous landscape stretching beyond me. The bird lands sharp at the top of my cloud pillow. And begins to squawk. Incessantly. And before I blink, I am tumbling out of my very real heaven hurtling qui...

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