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Submitted to Contest #272
There’s a stillness in the moments before dawn, a fragile silence that blankets the world as it lingers between night and day. The streets of Paris are always quietest at this hour, bathed in the soft glow of fading moonlight. I’ve always appreciated the subtlety of it, how the shadows dance on cobblestones, hiding secrets whispered long after midnight. Even in the 1800s, when the world thrived on beauty and elegance, there was something timeless about this city. A place where the old and new collide, where stories of monsters drift from one...
Submitted to Contest #271
Sophie Winters had always been curious about the dusty corners of her old Victorian house. For years, her mother had spoken of the attic as though it held nothing more than the usual family relics, things left behind by relatives long gone. The house itself had been passed down through generations of women, and it was easy to believe secrets had been lost in its walls. But Sophie, at seventeen, had never felt the urge to explore them—until that quiet afternoon in San Francisco.Something about that day seemed different. It was unusually still...
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