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Forest Born

Submitted by admin on Wed, 11/30/2011 - 18:06
by: 
Deborah Walker

Michael’s footsteps falter when he sees the woman shedding her rough coat of bark and stepping naked into the fleckered forest. Stripped of her garment, she is pale ivory wood. A newborn nymph, devoid of hair, yet fully formed. She stretches her moist limbs of skin stripped wood.
Michael gasps, a small sound that might have been lost within the rush of the forest’s growth, but she turns her curled bud eyes towards him. She opens her sap filled mouth. Uncoiling, unwinding her vines, she grows towards Michael, embracing him in the newly peeled twigs of her arms.

Author Bio: 

Deborah Walker grew up in the most English town in the country, but she soon high-tailed it down to London, where she now lives with her partner, Chris, and her two young children. Find Deborah in the British Museum trawling the past for future inspiration or on her blog: http://deborahwalkersbibliography.blogspot.com/