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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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…The offer for the Regional Director position was formally extended a week later. He accepted, his voice steady, his hands betraying none of the tremor that ran through his body. He had won this round, but the victory felt hollow, tainted by the knowledge that he was standing on increasingly shaky ground. He had outrun the initial threat, but the shadows of the past were beginning to lengthen, stretching towards him like grasping fingers. He had built his castle, but he knew, with a chilling certainty, that the storm was far from over. The illusion of normalcy was beginning to fray at the edges.