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The Umbrella Tree
Laura McCormack
“In the summertime, the people came. Even with the pressure burning behind my eyes, I saw them come from the security of the front porch. Pale, tanned, old, young, in love, spurned in despair they came, sometimes on bicycles, rollerblades, with moth-eaten dogs in tow. I, perched behind an umbrella of a tree, watched them with my skirts folded around me as they moved past my tranquillity …”
