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Submitted to Contest #164
“Where I come from,” drawls a male voice with a heavy Southern accent, “we don’t take kindly to folks like you who don’t know their proper place.” The figure of a man in a cowboy hat, obscured in shadow, takes a few steps toward the light. Its hand goes to its hip, as if to touch a holstered pistol. “Where I come from,” the voice continues threateningly, “people like you had better watch what they say, if they don’t want to get into any trouble.” A sandy-haired and mustached white man dressed in a cowboy hat, a button-down checkered ...
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