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Submitted to Contest #296
The Villa ANKEThe Villa wasn’t anything really grand. There was no acreage of grape vines or olive trees or anything exotic, just a comfortable welcoming place, roomy enough with pockets of space to be alone or together, with air to breathe where winds had flirted away the dust. Water pumped from a deep well fed a large pond swirling with colourful goldfish and a fountain spraying delicate mist over the water lilies. It was dreamy and yet real enough to stay there, rustic with familiar edges. It had a good reputation in the Trident Galax...
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