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Sitka
A Short Story
By Allison R. Shely
Newton, Massachusetts
The strip mall is an unassuming place, by Newton standards: glossy glass storefronts, a herd of Lexus SUVs parked outside the Whole Foods, the shrieks of dying human desperation breaking through the gentle Muzak.
The periodic screams come from the end unit of the center, Cheryl Smith’s boutique gym “Survival of the Fittest.”
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