Stone Soup

Where young artists paint the world with words

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Fox Girl

Few were (and still are) able to imagine the wild figure of Fox Girl. But if  you saw her, you’d recognize her even if you’d never heard of such a thing.   For Fox Girl lived in a faraway town, Ivywood, hundreds of thousands of  miles from any large cities. Where she lived, the months of winter never came,  and the incredible, unbelievable creatures roamed free. And here, in this world  already beyond normal, lived Fox Girl, the one that many came to Ivywood to  see.  Fox Girl’s appearance was unreal. Stranger than the cyan wolves that  managed to fly in the air with their magnificent wings, and stranger than the  salmon-pink kittens that would spend their time leaping in and out of the many  winding, flowing rivers. Fox Girl, for one, looked absolutely anything but  human. While she had several details that resembled a person, most of Fox Girl  was elsewhere.   She had electrifying shamrock-green eyes that glowed especially in the  darkness, while her vibrant amethyst-purple hair that stretched to her toes were  unignorable. A bushy, apricot-colored tail tinged with white hung between her  long legs and two ears, matching in appearance, stood always perked atop her  head. Fox Girl dressed in lively hues which mirrored her animated personality.  Fox Girl was one to watch. One to wait hours, days, months, years to see.  Many say Ivywood is just a myth told to put young children asleep at night. But  if you question me, I’ll always say the same: “No, Ivywood and Fox Girl aren’t a  legend. It’s nothing but reality.”