Based on True Events

Fatima Naveed, 12

When we go on our adventures, it’s like the world has paused, and there is a softening in time: an open window for us to climb through and trot across forbidden fields, hidden paths with witchy fences and sun-kissed leaves with an effervescent glow. Here, the four seasons go backward, mosaic pieces string together like the dandelions we collect to coronate ourselves with.

And as we step out from below the tunnel, a walk that seemingly lasts forever, we hear the time we left behind catching up to us; the ripple smoothing out until we dip our toes in the timeless again.