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Weekly Contest #32
The door was locked. That was a good sign. James held up a ring of keys and peered over the top of his glasses. He took a moment to find the right one, picking through them carefully. Beside him, Carrie worried the skin around her thumbnail with her teeth. James found the key and slid it into the lock. It fit perfectly but he paused before he turned it. “Whatever we find in there,” he told her, “whatever state he’s in, just remember that we’re going to help him.”Carrie nodded but didn’t look at him. “What do we do if he won’t ...
Weekly Contest #17
Maybe, just maybe, Lily thought, if I sit here long enough I really will sink into the sofa. Still, maybe it was better to get it all out of the way in one go. If her parents insisted on coming to visit maybe it was better that it coincided with getting a bollocking from the head of Finance and then missing missing her bus, leading to a mad dash across London to be home in time. She’d only just had time to shimmy into acceptable clothes (“Honestly, Lilian. A lady needn’t look so dowdy just because she’s decided to enter the workplace.”,...
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