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Submitted to Contest #325
Gate Keeping She felt the breeze against her neck, felt the shades pressing in all around, those sibilant shadows flicking a cold shiver up her spine. Pulling the wrought iron gate shut was difficult, it’s rusted hinges squealed mightily. Gill listened for the latch to click into place, harbouring an admittedly silly fear that some other worldly creature might escape and begin drifting through the adjoining subdivision, doing what she wasn’t sure. Hitching her worn, leather knapsack higher on her shoulder, she pulled out a tattered paper map...
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