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Weekly Contest #33
In room 23 in a run-down, seedy motel in Bakersfield, California sits a man on the small, surely dirty bed in his room he purchased for the night. He's naked, overweight, and sweating profusely in the fan-blown, dry desert air of the room, a .357 magnum in one hand, as he stares at the paper thin wall in front of him. He leans forward to listen more intently to the sounds coming from the adjacent room. A man and a woman, from the sounds of it, mid-coitous, the head board of their rickety bed thumping in an almost rhythmic bump, semi-animalis...
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