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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 was still Chris Dozier, the boy who had witnessed Maya’s murder, and that part of him would never truly die. He had suppressed the rage, but he hadn't extinguished it. And he wondered, with a growing sense of dread, if he ever truly could. The promotion, the comfortable life, the illusion of normalcy—all of it felt suddenly fragile, perched precariously on the edge of a precipice. He had kept his secret, but at what cost? He had chosen survival over confrontation, and the weight of that decision settled upon him, heavy and cold. He had walked away once, but the question lingered, a dark whisper in the back of his mind: would he always be able to?