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Author on Reedsy Prompts since Dec, 2019
Submitted to Contest #18
The most important thing, the pickpocket had told the protege, is the misdirection. Your mark will only protect what he thinks you want. The protege had nodded understandingly, had carefully narrowed his eyes in an expression of intense concentration, and then he had taken another long swallow of his drink and signalled the bartender for another. You’re not listening, the pickpocket had said. He was an old man, and his eyes had a layer of cataract so thick the protege imagined he could skim it off like cream from a fresh pail of milk. ...
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