J Hardy Carroll – The Green-Walled Treehouse

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This is intake week at our university, meaning it’s the busiest week of the year. I’ll try to read other people’s stories if I can though. I looked up the story I wrote for this prompt 10 years ago, but didn’t like it as much, so I wrote a new story for it. Tomblr “Aww,…

Svelty and Stock

Svelty and Stock It was my turn to seek. Again. . . . 99, 100. I turned around, pretending not to see Svelty—the size of a house and trying to crouch behind leafless trees. Svelty always felt bad about being found first. Stock—whip thin and camouflaged—felt bad he could never be found. It was an…