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Your challenge (should you choose to accept it) is to crank out 100 words or 1 graphic inspired by the word:
Gutter

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Inness flinched, snarled, and then, with a haughty sneer and huff, stalked away from the platform with as much dignity in her step as the muddy square would permit.
Today there was no cheering from the citizens of Glevum. No shouts of outrage or adulation. What remained of the day was suffocatingly still. The onlookers trudged away without fanfare. Someone collected the corpse, the head, and dragged them away for an unceremoniously undignified end as Claes-Arne’s blood dripped into the gutters of the streets.
Zerio stood alone, on the platform, red-stained sword between his hands, face up-tilted into the weeping rain.