On a wild, windy evening, just after Midsummer, while fireflies danced and winked in the garden, the neighborhood rabbits knew — all at once, as if by silent, secret decree —  that it was time for a game of tag.

They bounded along sidewalks, raced in circles through the neighbors’ grass, and chased each other around trees and houses.

When the game had run itself out, the rabbits snuck through the possum-sized hole in the garden fence and found their way to Rabbit’s tea shop for a late-evening snack.

(July 2023)

Story & Photo © Jennifer Singleton / Read+Purr

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