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Submitted to Contest #65
The rumour mill of Cape Melinoe was the most active it had been since it was discovered that Darcy Clarke had been stealing carrots from Matilda Potter’s garden (quite the scandal considering Darcy had won the gardening derby four years in a row). It started when Melinoe College had hired the new history professor. Professor Angelos was a great teacher, there was no refuting that but he tended to go completely off-book. When he’d read an eye witness account of the Battle of Par to the tenth graders, for example, he’d scoffed and shut the tex...
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