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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 saw the casual brutality, the reckless abandon, the way they treated their lives and the lives of others as if they were as insignificant as the snowflakes melting on their rough jackets. It was a harsh lesson, etched into his memory with the biting cold. He was not just running errands; he was existing in a battlefield. And his sharp mind, the one asset he possessed, was the only thing that would keep him alive. He turned away, the image of those figures burning in his mind, and began the long, cold walk back, the weight of his ledger and the chill of the night settling deeper into his young bones. He was learning the curriculum, and it was a brutal one.