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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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…He ran a hand through his hair, the short, neat cut a far cry from the unruly mop he’d sported in his youth. He was a different person now. Stronger. Wiser. More capable. He had faced the worst life had to offer and had emerged, not unscathed, but unbroken. He had reclaimed himself from the wreckage. The ghost of Chris Dozier was not just fading; it was a memory, a story he told himself in the quiet hours, a reminder of the battles he had fought and won. He was Marcus Thorne, and he was finally free to live his life. He had earned this peace. He deserved it. He was ready to embrace it.