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Weekly Contest #170
Margaret Lowell stepped on her porch to escape the vinegar aroma of the tomatoes and cucumbers she was canning—and shrieked. Smoke as black as death billowed from her daughter’s home. She flew down her front steps toward the house where her daughter Emma and four-year-old granddaughter Betsy lived. Margaret didn’t bother with the path but plowed straight through the acre of corn between the houses. A faint siren sounded near the Starlight Galleria mall two hay fields from Emma’s house. Sudden screams of agony ec...
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