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Weekly Contest #342
Elizabeth slumped against the brick wall, her heart hammering her eardrums. That late August night, the air was thick and warm, a labor to move it in and out of her lungs as she had sprinted several streets from her home. She looked disheveled. Her sandy blonde hair had fallen loose from its plait and slicked back by sweat from her brow. The leather shoes she had stolen from her father at odds with her dress of thick black lace draped over the yellow silk. Perhaps with some preternatural foresight, she had dressed in mourner’s black before a...
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