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Weekly Contest #137
The Perfect Candidate It was only a smile, but even the most insignificant of gesture was everything to Alma Blackmore. She had never known kindness and quite often mistook simple polite interactions as being signs of keen interest from a possible suitor. Brazen as always, Alma wouldn’t waste a chance that he might be the one. She had nothing to lose, since her conception, life had been against her, a newborn dumped in the streets like trash. Her early years spent being mistreated at orphanages and then she found herself back on the ...
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