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High Society: Marion chapter 3
Read Part 1 and Part 2 Adrian was dead. A yell and running footsteps from across the warehouse stirred her. It felt as though her heart were cramping in her chest… a familiar feeling… and she leapt into action. She slipped off her cork wedges and dashed into the shadows,…
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High Society: Melody Chapter 3
“How did I get here?” wondered Melody to herself. One minute I was starry-eyed and starting my first acting class, and now I’m here: inside a narrow wooden box, being sawed in half by a monkey. Clearly, the week hadn’t been a good one. On Tuesday (Melody’s least favorite day…
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High Society: Albert Chapter 3
“Take me to the sea!” Albert shouted as he jumped into a taxi. Albert had become more impulsive with age, and why not indeed? Today he longed to stand on a pier and watch the waves crash against the rocks. He’d enjoyed doing this with his late wife for…
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High Society: The Homeless Man
Denny walked out of Century Members Club and swaggered quickly down Shaftsbury Avenue. In each hand was an item formerly belonging to someone else; in his left hand a golden pocket watch and in his right were keys to a Porsche. It had been a good week of swindling for…
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High Society: Denny Rogers
Century Members Club was nearly impossible to get into for a celebrity, let alone for an average person, but this sort of thing never stopped Denny Rogers. Sporting a fake thin moustache and casually twiddling a fancy golden pocket watch, he sat on the roof terrace reading ‘The Grifters’. Right…