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Weekly Contest #230
The murder should’ve been easy. I had the whole thing planned out. A ladder, a card, a chain, a hook. It was all there. And now I was shrouded in blood. Far too much blood to clean. The red soaked my yellow shirt. Perhaps I should’ve planned for things to go wrong, to give room for error. Yet another shortcoming. I looked down at Maddy’s disfigured head. “Always so precise,” she taunted. “Always losing.” I was supposed to win this time. I was supposed to throw her off guard, kill her, and get away with it. I was supposed to win in the en...
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