IN THE LIMELIGHT (5-minute Freewrite)

a 5-minute Freewrite by A.E. Jackson

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Val dashed down the side street. Her pursuers close behind. Were they FBI, CIA, KGB, NSA? Odds were it was Anonymous. Here to settle the score. To end the cat and mouse game she started last spring.

There. Another dash and she would step into the stoop of her apartment building. But before she dove, she looked. North along Crenshaw. Clear. South toward Alexandria. Clear. West where the Park entrance stood. Was that a tourist? A vendor? It had to be one of them. Then the figure moved on, pocketing the cellphone it had been using as a camera.

'Go now, Val.' Most people heard voices in their heads. Thankful her voice was the sole one, Val got moving.

She climbed her stairs three at a time. She sprung the lock. She dove into her desk chair, and flipped open her laptop. The console fired up and started humming. The familiar black screen flooded with neon green letters greeted her. 'Back in the limelight again...'

T H E E N D

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