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Submitted to Contest #133
The City Girl Snap! Snap! Snap! Bony fingers sliced through Clara’s reverie. She didn’t have to look up to know whose body possessed those claws. Although only in her thirties, Agnes’ hands defied her age. The enamel of her fingernails showed thick, yellowed and rippled from years of vitamin and iron deficiencies. Her thin, translucent skin stretched taught, obscene and white over her knuckles, making Clara’s stomach turn sickly at the sight of them. Her knuckles protruded so prominently they made you think they were going to pop out of he...
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