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I was removing the last of four apple pies from the oven when a voice inside my head abruptly urged: Take Carol a copy of your story.

 

I stopped dead. “Where did that come from?” I wondered aloud, surveying my cluttered counters and dirty dishes. Until that moment I’d given little thought to when I might take my longtime neighbor Carol the Woman’s World issue in which a mystery story of mine had recently appeared.

 

I’d purchased an extra copy, and I had every intention of delivering it soon. But at that moment, all I wanted to do was clean up the sticky countertops.

 

Shaking aside the strange intrusion, I started cleaning–but only for a second more.

 

Take Carol a copy of your story, the voice persisted. Do it now!

 

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