Fantasy / Dark
This is a guest post by Hephzibah Ojochenemi. Please see the author’s links if you enjoyed this piece.
There once was a girl called Olivia, every night she would sneak off into the forest.
Dancing with the foxes under the moonlight.
Once the sun rises, she hurries back to bed before her…
…parents ever noticed she was missing.
In school Olivia was constantly mocked by the girls for her forest stories.
Out of frustration she tells the girls to come along tonight if they wished to see the dancing foxes
And to her surprise, they came…
Into the night they vanished, past the hedges of gold. By the lake Olivia showed the girls the dancing foxes.
Their majestic howls and wagging tales captured the girls hearts. Soon the foxes heard a twig break as one of the clumsy girls tried to mimic their moves.
Their howls turned to vicious growls… just like that the chase began under the moonlight.
Their screams a beautiful offering to the goodness of the the night.
Hephzibah Ojochenemi is a writer and poet with several works that you can read online at her substack here. Please be sure to check out her other work there if you enjoyed this piece.
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