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Submitted to Contest #326
Alice first met Darren on a Friday night. It was mid-October, the weather having only just tipped from late Summer into early Autumn, and the breeze from the north had brought with it a biting cold that left the skin of Alice’s nose raw and flaking. She was running late for dinner with her best friend, Hannah, and knowing Hannah's dislike of tardiness, Alice raced down the street, dry leaves scattered to dust under her fast-moving feet. Round one bend in the round, turn left, round another. Alice moved at an unprecedented speed, her face t...
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