Octo-Heist in Progress
ShortStory 7,470 words Recommended by 4 award/anthology sources
Etta left her sister’s shoes behind at last night’s drunken party, and she’s ashamed to show her face there again, so she hires a man and his octopus to sneak in and steal them from under the bed.
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