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The Dead Mans Hand
Title: Dead Man’s Hand Act I: The Concrete Bottom (Chapters 1–7) Chapter 1: The Unwanted Son Fifteen-year-old Chris Dozier sits on the curb with a single trash bag of belongings. His parents, emotionally bankrupt and heavily neglectful,…
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…Then, he picked up the pencil. And he began to write his future. The test was a blur of focused intensity, each question a challenge met, each answer a step away from the darkness. When he finally handed in his papers, a profound sense of accomplishment washed over him, a feeling so potent it almost brought tears to his eyes. He had done it. He had taken the fragmented pieces of his broken life and forged them into something new, something solid. He had passed the intelligence test. He had proven that Chris Dozier, the unwanted son, the street rat, could be more. He could be Marcus Thorne. And Marcus Thorne, he realized with a quiet thrill, was a man who had a chance.