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Submitted to Contest #29
The clash of the shutter, the flash of the bulb. Too loud, too obvious, too novice. Too dangerous. The young woman glanced up, ruby red blood dripping from equally ruby red lips, the blood splatters making her expensive golden flapper dress look like some modern painting gone wrong. But the knife in her hand gleamed brighter than Mars on a clear night amongst the dark alley behind the townhouse, the bloody body forgotten. Her hardened gaze gleamed coldly as...
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