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Weekly Contest #174
The alley lay dead still. This part of the city was mostly deserted at this time of night, once businesses had closed for the day but the bars and seedy joints hadn’t opened yet. The sound of occasional screams in the distance and echoing gunshots are a constant drone as the rain dripped down in a steady drizzle making small puddles between the trash. The clouded sky was lit from below with a mixture of multicolored neon and the flickering glow of fire. The sound of an explosion boomed in the distance. Gunshots and distorted voices followe...
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