I used to lie in those woods and stare at the trees and imagine they were us, bound together at the top. Me, Mom, Dad, Riley, Jake. Families like us were supposed to stick together.
The woods are gone now.
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This city has a lot of secrets. Like who stole the money from my family’s store and where they got the key and what they did with Grandpa, who was running the register that day.
I don’t much like secrets.
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The storm out the train windows was nothing to what he felt inside.
They had sent him away. Why would two people who were supposed to love him forever and ever give him up so easily?
Why didn’t they cry?
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We lived in the sky, on pillow clouds. No one knew, until that day a woman climbed to the top of our mountain. Grimmold didn’t warn us. We didn’t have enough time to hide.
I turned, and she was there.
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He came around every now and then. A beautiful creature. He would watch me while I sat writing. Sometimes he would venture closer than any wild animal should, telling me something.
And then one day he walked out a man.
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Brambles guarded the wood. He could not see her, but he could hear her calling for him. So he ducked and cut and walked inside. He did not notice those vines closing behind him. He did not feel the trap.
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