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Nothing for it. It had to be done.
He’d get in trouble, but that was part of becoming a man.
He took notes, fussed, planned.
The time to mark the hall has come.
He hid the satchel by the bed. Set the alarm.
Woke to sunlight and calls over the Intercom:
“Lucas to the office, stat.”
Lucas the archenemy is the new Hall Mark.
For Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt of: Hallmark in 64 words
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He’ll meet her at the exhibition at Noon, he’d promised.
“You’ll see. Twelve on the dot.”
“Like Cinderella?” she had joked.
“Sort of.”
She scanned the crowds, the balconies, the empty domes that rose above like marble skies.
Laughter echoed. People milled around.
She checked her watch again.
It had inched, traitorous, well past twelve o’clock.
Like Cinderella with no fairy godmother, she thought.
Never should have eaten that pumpkin Sam had bought.
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