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Saturday's Storyteller: "Alexandria Morgan Richter was, perhaps, the most selfish girl to ever walk the earth."

by Belinda Roddie Alexandria Morgan Richter was, perhaps, the most selfish girl to ever walk the earth. At least, that's what I thought. Or what I thought based on several classmates' testimony. Alexandria was two years my senior, but that didn't stop the vitriol even from the freshmen at the university who had barely even gotten to know her within three months. Therefore, it was more than surprising for me when, as I sat upright in my hospital bed, scrolling through Tumblr on the tablet that my mother had provided me during my recovery, that she cautiously traipsed into my room, a bouquet of flowers tucked under one arm and a box of chocolates clenched in the opposite fist. "Um...hello." I suppose she had expected me to be asleep or distracted by a nurse or someone else in the room, because she quickly averted her eyes, dropped off her gifts on the nearest table, mumbled a raspy, "Feel better," and hurried out of my room in half the time i

Today's OneWord: Plausible

"It's entirely plausible that the Council will be uneasy about letting us leave so early," Mistress Kor murmured as she made to refill her glass. "Ever since our arrival, tensions between the factions have...loosened, to put it casually." Arvey couldn't quite understand why. A gang of travelers, bent on marking and documenting uncharted or unconquered territory, couldn't possibly have that much of an effect on such a troubled town.