The Disenchanted Forest - Friday Flash

The faerie ring formed from discarded cigarette butts.
The henge was composed from jagged bottles sawn off by practise bullets. Witches’ thimbles picked out in empty shell casings.
Wreaths woven not from acorns and oak leaves, but from silver foil and torn up aluminium can crack pipes.
A cromlech constructed of three abandoned shopping trollies.
Corn dollies festooned the bare ground, fabricated from condoms and tampons.
Hag stones cultivated from car tyres, corn circles of six-pack beer plastic.
A scarecrow only for want of a wooden spine, fashioned from a mound of clothes and rags.
A small maypole erected from a medical crutch planted in the soil and strips of bandages billowing from it.
The Devil’s footprints forged from pillboxes, twisted glue tubes and lighter fluid tins 

An outline like a chalk figure had been burned into the grass, where a prone man had been set on fire without bothering with a whicker cage.
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Published on July 14, 2014 14:29
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