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Untitled (A Drabun) 
by Terrie Leigh Relf

It was a wonderful harvest celebration with all the village clothed in their best attire. The children appeared particularly happy traipsing through the fields, white helium balloons wound tightly ’round their wrists, pockets filled with candies and the last of autumn’s fruit. We cheered as the marching band circled ’round, announcing that the feast was about to begin. Giving thanks for this sumptuous meal, we looked skyward, knowing that winter would become cold and colder still, our fields soon barren. And then, the earth shifted, splitting open beneath our feet.

snow fall

how the chosen

were embraced by the sky

Fiction © Copyright Terrie Leigh Relf
Image courtesy of Rie Sheridan Rose. 

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