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Submitted to Contest #65
Need a quiet place to call home? Then Shady Oaks is the perfect little plot of suburbia for you. I moved there to try something different. City living provided anonymity, but it’s so noisy and dirty. After 300 years, I’d grown tired of the noise, the rudeness. Some who lived in the city adopted those attitudes for protection. I empathized. As a woman I certainly wasn’t the friendliest when I lived in NYC. It was the only way to keep men from thinking they could harass me. Well, short of killing them. You didn’t ...
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