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Flash Fiction Friday: The 13th Keeper

Friday looming ahead of me, I pulled another title from Jemima Pett's flash fiction prompts late Thursday afternoon. That gave me "The Thirteenth Keeper," and I decided that a little romance might be in order. This one's about 950 words. The 13th Keeper "He's cute." Jill giggled, a sound disturbing incongruous with the evidence of decades past that marked her eyes, if not her skin. Sandra nodded. "It's worth investigating. You never know." "The last one didn't turn out so well." "You won't know unless you try." The two women leaned their determinedly dark heads together, whispering, before sitting back and taking long, thoughtful sips from the glasses they held. The gentleman in question, unaware of their scrutiny, continued to sip his own drink, apparently lost in thought. "So how do you go about it?" Sandra wondered. “You’ve no one to introduce you.” "It's an art," Jill said with a smir