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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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…Chris sat at his expensive mahogany desk, the cityscape a glittering tapestry of distant lights spread out before him. The promotion. Regional Director. The words themselves felt alien, a foreign language he had mastered through sheer, desperate will. He ran a hand over the smooth, cool surface of the desk, a stark contrast to the grimy concrete he’d once called home. He had four walls, a door with a lock, and a name that wasn't his own. Marcus Thorne. It was a ghost’s name, a dead man’s hand dealt to him from the deck of fate, and he’d played it with an unn