Just a little something I've been working on...
I don't really expect this story to go anywhere, but I'm going to post the opening of a story, here:
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It's 3:17 PM on Saturday, April 4, 2009; Officer Christian is standing at the base of the apartment complex. A bald, thin, medium-height middle-aged man, about 40 years old, has just been taken away, pronounced dead at the scene, after what appears to be a suicide. One grief-stricken witness, returning from a trip downtown, told the officer that she heard an extended primal scream, followed by the body hitting the ground about 15 seconds later. Lying near the chalk outline of the recently-removed body is a mechanical pencil and a stack of business cards. One card catches the officer's eye. Officer Christian picks it up, wondering if its contents might just give a clue as to what has just transpired on this Saturday afternoon. The card reads:
CEEILST
0123456789ABCDE0
"CEEILST?" Officer Christian wonders. "And what is with the numbers and letters along the bottom?"
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It's 3:17 PM on Saturday, April 4, 2009; Officer Christian is standing at the base of the apartment complex. A bald, thin, medium-height middle-aged man, about 40 years old, has just been taken away, pronounced dead at the scene, after what appears to be a suicide. One grief-stricken witness, returning from a trip downtown, told the officer that she heard an extended primal scream, followed by the body hitting the ground about 15 seconds later. Lying near the chalk outline of the recently-removed body is a mechanical pencil and a stack of business cards. One card catches the officer's eye. Officer Christian picks it up, wondering if its contents might just give a clue as to what has just transpired on this Saturday afternoon. The card reads:
CEEILST
0123456789ABCDE0
"CEEILST?" Officer Christian wonders. "And what is with the numbers and letters along the bottom?"
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