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Submitted to Contest #61
From inkwells to markers, petticoats to miniskirts, and rogue to chapstick, I'm rudely yanked back into the present. Someone belches behind me, and the smell of his lunch is so pungent I plug my nose. I'd much rather be in a lush parlor wrinkling my nose at the distaste of a tobacco pipe. At least there, I would be surrounded by gentlemen. "Heads up!" I duck on instinct, but the projectile doesn't fly anywhere near me. It—whatever ‘it’ is—ends up stuck on the back of someone's chair. The boy who threw it roars with laughter. He sees the gl...
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