Once upon a time Mom and I discovered an enchanted place with a lake like a mirror, a sparkling waterfall, and an enchanted pond that hid under a soft blanket of white dirt surrounded by a wall of rock so steep and so high that it was out-of-this-world. When we first discovered it, Mom and I had to fight through dog-high white dirt that stole our legs, and sucked us into the earth until we thought we would be stuck to the spot till summer. Once we’d seen it, Mom swore we’d come back someday. Someday was today.
the first time. Back then it had been surrounded by swimming pool grey columns of ice, and there were diamond-like blocks of clear ice on the ground the size of soccer balls. Today the sparkling and glowing ice were gone, and the rock around the waterfall rose straight up in square blocks like shiny the walls of a castle. It was still magical, but in a more forbidding way, like the walls of a castle filled with knights rather than princesses.
Oscar the Hugger Mugger
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