A Little Story I, Felicity, Wrote

There is a wide belt of parkland surrounding the city. A girl walks out of the town briskly, not especially caring where she goes and what she does. She has black, short hair, and she wears a blue long-sleeved jacket and blue pants. She closes her eyes tightly as she stands in the middle of the parkland, thinking about who she was supposed to meet. Then, ropes come down in front of her, and the girl is frightened. They turn out not to be ropes, but bamboo ropes, and behind those bamboo ropes is a valley. A beautiful valley full of green with a shimmering mirror-clear lake. She walks into the valley like it's a dream. Her hair shimmers in the bright sun/cloud sky.
This girl then sits by the lake and stares at her own reflection for over an hour.
She walks back home to her little apartment in the city, eating rotis with avocado pachadi, but she always remembers the hidden valley.
By FELICITY Merriman