A Story In
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The PI
“You're a dick, right?”
“Come again?”
“A private investigator?”
Mel sat across from Doris Vandergrift in the living room of her mansion.
“I need to find Reginald.”
“Your husband?”
“Yes. As I mentioned, I have a letter.”
Mel scanned the pages.
“I keep seeing – ‘I need more money.’”
“My 87-year-old husband ran off with Rhonda, our massage therapist. She was always after him for money, as you see.”
“But it's not a letter.”
“What'd you mean?”
“It's more like a manuscript.”
“Does that matter?”
“A manuscript? Yeah...To run down the leads in a manuscript costs a lot more money.”
From Guest Contributor David Sydney
For the prompts Manuscript and Letter.
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