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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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…And then he saw him. Slumped against the grimy brick wall, a dark, unmoving shape. A man. Or what had been a man. His limbs were twisted at unnatural angles, his head lolling forward, obscuring his face. The stillness was absolute, the kind that screamed of finality. Chris knew that stillness. He’d seen it before. He stopped a few feet away, his breath catching in his throat. Another one. Another soul claimed by the streets, by the poison that flowed through its veins. For a moment, the old instinct, the one that screamed danger, keep moving, don’t get involved, warred with a flicker of something else. P