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Weekly Contest #303
Elle had always been ordinary.Not plain, not boring, just average. She wore muted colors, maintained a steady job at a small bookstore, and lived alone in an unassuming apartment overlooking an alleyway cluttered with forgotten bicycles and rusted trash bins. Her cat, a sleepy gray tabby named Marlowe, was her only regular companion.Elle liked her quiet life. But even more, she liked observing people whose lives shimmered brighter than hers.People like Lia.Lia was everything Elle wasn't—charismatic, charming, dazzling. She appeared one rainy...
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