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The Alley - The Attack

Author: Raven Storm
last update publish date: 2026-04-29 05:21:28

ISABEL

I should have taken the main route. I should have walked the extra three blocks to the well-lit parking garage entrance instead of cutting through the alley but it's late, almost nine PM and I'm exhausted from another day of pretending everything is fine when my life is falling apart.

So I took the shortcut.

The alley is dimly lit, just one flickering streetlight at the far end casting long shadows across the pavement. Dumpsters line one side, the brick wall of an old warehouse on the ot
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