Competition Twenty-Five Shortlisted: The River

You look so wholesome in your verdant, late-summer suit, sun-dappled, waters tinkling and susurrating round ancient stones, scarved in creams, greens, lightest golds, hinting at your coming autumn brilliance. For now, you are benign, a place of sanctuary and secret picnics, leaping salmon and dancing dragonflies.   But I know you. I know your murderous […]

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