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Weekly Contest #168
Chapter One Thin as a twig, Maywood Sloper slouched against the only window in the room. Quiet and sorrowful, he stared through the filthy glass at the train tracks below, then turned and squinted at me. A pair of torn and muddied, black lace panties draped the clipboard in his hand. “I’ve lost her.” He coughed deep in hi...
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