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Submitted to Contest #329
London, 1793 Michael Kelly was not disappointed, after standing in the alley waiting for the girl. He had first seen her two weeks earlier when he stumbled home from a rowdier night of drink, and then again within the next night or two, heading out with mates. If one of them hadn’t commented on her, he might not have given it another thought. Soon it seemed whenever he passed along that street, she was there; always alone, walking quickly across the way, in the opposite direction. What the respectably dressed young woman was doing out and ab...
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