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Submitted to Contest #329
One terrible act has mortal consequences, a fact that Josephine learned decades prior to the mugging that took place a few minutes ago. She bends down, her long coat trailing in the dank puddles and the freshly spilled blood. In front of her, a young woman’s chest rises and falls with more effort than is usually necessary. Josephine’s eyes trail from the victim’s sweaty face, down the frantically beating pulse in her neck, to the dried bits of blood that have formed crescents under her fingernails, and finally to the unfortunate stab wound i...
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