Lake Lewisia #412

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She considered for a moment how to respond to the new journalist’s suggestion, fingers smoothing reassuringly across a computer busily compiling an edition headed to printing next. “You’re not from Lewisia, so ‘spicing up’ stories on a slow news week might seem like a good idea to you.” Displeasure at the idea vibrated in the computer, and she couldn’t help adding, “But around here, stretched truths have a tendency to become just plain truth, however unlikely, and punitively so.”

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LL#412