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Short Story: The Volupide's Murder

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In 1982, October 13, 1:15am at the Volupide’s house a married couple got into a fight. The wife, Queene, was angry and got into her Mustang and sped away. She said she was going to a party at the new golfing range. After the party, she came back home and made food for the guests. One of the guests said they saw the husband, Arthur, laying at the bottom of the stairs with a glass cup in his hand. He had been hit on the back of his head. “Oh no, what have I done? I think he is dead!” She said Arthur was coming down the stairs for another drink and then he fell down the stairs. He had a glass cup in his hand when he fell he was dead already.

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