Looking Glass

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Parts 9
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Reads 180
Votes 18
Parts 9
Time 43m

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She hated looking glasses, for a future she knew she would not have every time she glanced upon it. 
Future held and cradled, precious , but not hers.

. . . 

A story set very loosely during 1890s England, of future and premonitions, murder and prevention.

. . .

A story designed from a prompt from the Open Novella Contest 2021, number 56. You can see the future by looking into people's eyes. However, if you tell them about it, it won't come to fruition. One day, you lock eyes with yourself in the mirror.

Painting "Lady Before a Mirror" by John Alexander White (1856 - 1915).

A qualifier of the Round 1 Open Novella Contest 2021.All Rights Reserved

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