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  • Published: Fictional Flashbacks Competition
  • Date: May 2024

“A Rope Swing in the Forest” 2024 Fictional Flashbacks! Shortlist

South West Nellie Crawford
I wish you could feel it, know it. The feeling of swinging weightless over the river on a rope tied to a branch, and the terrifying freedom of letting go.

Of plunging through watery shafts of light to the murky bottom. Of kicking blindly to the surface to gasp the cool swamp air. And of floating, face to the treetops and the sky, while dragonflies hover with fragile rainbow wings.

But there’s nothing to show you. Just a weeping ulcer of a pool, a bruised sky, a dying forest, and this remnant of rope, still hanging from its branch.
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