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Submitted to Contest #133
Title – Where passions lie, ideas blossom. The floorboards creek as the young Harry Butcher fumbles his way around the bedroom on a dark winter’s morning in the outskirts of Birmingham, November 1860. Harry tried intently not to wake his beloved wife from her restful slumber. He rubs his hands together then brings them to his mouth and blows warm air from deep within his lungs, before striking a match and igniting the candlestick on his bedside table. While shaking out the match, his hand connects with a book, knocking it to the floor with...
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