The Murdered Girl

Fiction Friday

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They find the murdered girl in the alley behind a motel. Her red dress is in tatters, and she lays broken on top of a pool of her scarlet gore. She’s quite young and beautiful, but not beautiful enough to land on the front page of a newspaper.

She’s just another girl, they think. Because that’s what they all are. They forget they once laughed, once cried, had a heart that beat with…