Kay Salady
Kay Salady is an Author residing in Seattle,
Washington who believes that everyone has a gift and those gifts should be
shared with one another. Her motto, "love is everything" means
everything to her. She writes from the heart, if not with her soul and attempts
to instill elegance within the written word. Her favorite medium is poetry.
The Shadows Follow
The shadows followed the little girl, more quickly
than the sun, deep into an emerald canopy. And as she ran, the whispers came,
through leaves on branches of mighty trees that stood high above the forest
floor. Branches whose arms cradled life which held its breath in silence, as a
menacing murmur chanted from behind two small feet, scurrying over the decay of
all that fell to replenish the soil, which fed the green grove surrounding her
steps. A berry-stained basket of woven wood held firmly in her tiny hand,
tapped against her knee in rhythm as her pace quickened, as well as her breath.
Beads of perspiration gathered at her forehead as strands of tawny hair clung
before her eyes. She was running in circles in a state of confusion, and all
the trees began to appear quite the same. The buzz of a fly or the snap of a twig
enticed her anxiety. Her heart was pounding in her chest and ears. The entire
world had left her alone in this place . . . she was abandoned in this
beautiful, dark and ominous place.
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