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Why YOU should enter Twisted50, Volume 3 with a Horror Short Story by Lucy V Hay

A Thought-Provoking Question Someone recently asked me the first time I knew I was a writer. This great question got me thinking. After all, they hadn’t asked me the usual question of ‘where do you get your ideas from…

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