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A Chapter by Alice

My name is - Does it really matter what my name is? Well - I suppose it does. My name is Lucie and when this all began I was eighteen years old. My..

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A Chapter by Alice

So why did I start this? Well, I'm getting there. I haven't thought over this in quite a while, so it will take time. I was working in the shop that..

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A Chapter by Alice

So Christmas was on the way, and I helped Dianne to put up decorations, and eventually forgot the whole thing, though every so often Dianne would prob..

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A Chapter by Alice

The face did not come back the next day, of course, or the day after. It never left me though; it was on my mind, fleetingly, every day. I could not c..

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A Chapter by Alice

An instinctive animal part of my mind was telling me that I was in danger, that I should get out of the shop and as far away from this woman that look..

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A Chapter by Alice

At last it was Saturday, and I was closing the shop. Barry was waiting for me outside, friendly, but nonetheless staring at his watch impatiently. Whe..

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A Chapter by Alice

A grey-faced woman appeared behind the desk, and Barry immediately got up to speak to her, crossly, and she spoke back in a voice that did not care. S..

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A Chapter by Alice

That evening I could not stay inside the house. As soon as my parents returned from their day out the house was filled with the sound of mumbled conve..

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A Chapter by Alice

I wish that I could remember more about that night when my life changed forever, but I cannot. It bothers me that to this day I cannot remember exactl..

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A Chapter by Alice

The night before she had not made me wait any time at all, but now I sat for hour upon hour, until I looked at my watch and I saw that it was close to..