Julie Davis

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It wasn’t supposed to be this way. The towering trees surrounding me were like nothing found on Earth. Silver bark flecked with bits of violet and green gave way to red-tipped, translucent leaves the shape of diamonds. Massive roots thicker around than a car tore through the damp, mulch-littered ground to form loops and half-circles in the air. Bushes large enough to be trees themselves clustered in groups among the trunks, sporting fruits or berries of sizes and shapes I’d never seen.