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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 sank onto the curb, the worn leather wallet of Marcus Thorne clutched in his hand. He looked at the driver’s license, at the defiant smirk of the man whose identity he had stolen. But now, it didn’t feel like a theft. It felt like a reclamation. He had taken a life that was discarded, a life that had ended in a cold, forgotten alley, and he had breathed new life into it. He had given it purpose. He had given himself a chance. The streets had tried to break him, to consume him, but he had escaped. He had become Marcus Thorne. And for the first time in his young life, Chris Dozier felt like he might actually exist.