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Weekly Contest #230
Dullsville, a sleepy place nestled between monotonous hills and mundane valleys. And in the midst of this unimaginative banality lived Forbes Pritchard, a man who found himself at that time in his life where events tended towards him settling down, even though he was of the mind that he was not at all ready to settle down. He chafed against the binding forces that life stealthily applied but had, nevertheless, recently acquired an old house on Crooked Lane, a peculiar place, what with its warped timbers and crooked chimney. A more ’settling ...
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