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Guides & Prompts from Issue 71 Noir

Noir.  A private eye, a plainclothes policeman, an aging boxer, a hapless grafter, a law-abiding citizen lured into a life of crime. So, it’s a man’s story, then. Only a part, the woman are beautiful, mysterious, and always have a hidden agenda.  And, someone, man or women, is always looking for the big payoff.  Someone is always played for the sucker.  And, under it all the power of desire moves the story closer to the edge.

 HAYWARD FAULT LINE:  Leila Rae, editor (shake us up) 

1. Maximum length: 450 words.

2. The sub-theme is:  craving.

3. The setting is:  Cincinnati, OA.
4. Within the story, you must use this bit of text: the best of everything.

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