title: Pretty Masks: A Twisted Tale of Revenge
author:  C A Bell 
description: C.A.Bell was born and raised on the outskirts of London, England, but for the past four years has resided in the west midlands where she married and made a home. She is author to numerous erotic fiction stories, including The Architect, Nancy's Curse, Femme Fatale: The Agency, The Shame Train, and many more. As well as putting together her own collections of short stories and poetry, she is also a contributor to many anthologies and online magazines.
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  Copyright © 2019 Jen Ponce
  
  All rights reserved.
  
    
  
  Don’t copy this shit or your parts will turn green. It’s true, I know a guy.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  > To all you stabby bitches.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  KORRI
  
  There’s darkness inside me. It urges me to kill. It’s been there as long as I
  can remember … would you hate me if I told you I liked it?
  
  It was a fucked-up world we lived in when a magus couldn’t even walk home at
  night without carrying pepper spray in one hand and wearing brass knuckles on
  the other. The streetlights in this part of town all worked, there were
  Keepers patrolling the streets, and still there was a monster stalking the
  darkness, waiting for just the right moment to strike.
  
  The man wore a black trench, his expensive fedora pulled low over his forehead
  as if he was some sort of spy in a movie. His watch gleamed in the light, an
  expensive one by the looks of it, one of those timepieces given to the Master
  Theurge of a C