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Final Shot | ONC2022
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kelclou
Complete, First published Feb 12, 2022
Mature
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[ONC 2022 SHORTLISTER] When Mal receives the wrong photobook in the mail, room mate Zomi convinces her to try to find Ce-Ce, the woman in the photographs. Instead, she finds bird photographer Leo who can take her to all the places in the photobook...and some places she's never been before.

Based on ONC Prompt 50: 
Excitedly ripping off the package of the photobook you ordered, you don't find your vacation pics, but someone else's photographs of their everyday life. Amazingly, you recognise the neighbourhood and set out to deliver the book to its owner. What happens along the way?
And also ONC Prompt 70:
His eyes were cold and lifeless as he stared at me. 
"You have no idea who I am, do you?"
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