Samantha sat with both versions—the glitter and the fallout—until the scene in her head demanded more detail. She gave herself rules: make it intimate, avoid caricature, let the stakes feel lived-in. The story became a short, breath-held thing.

The flyer had been hand-drawn, edges ragged where it had been torn from a stack. In block letters someone had written "Goo Girls — 38" and underlined it twice. No venue, no time. Rodney Moore’s name was in the corner, a stamp in black ink: VERIFIED.

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