Valerie B

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“The Wrong Man” by Valerie B

Submitted to Contest #259

King Tobe walked the halls of the castle. It was the darkest hour of the night and he was chasing sleep through the hallways of the castle as if it were a lover using hide and seek as foreplay. He had had neither sleep nor foreplay in so long he’d forgotten what both felt like. The loss of his wife, Queen Aylese, a year ago had left him wretched and haunted – a ghost of a man that even the goddess of rest avoided. As he wandered the halls, he took a mental roll call of the night guards. He had seen many of these men as infants on the breast...

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