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TRIGGER WARNING **GUN VIOLENCE** TRIGGER WARNING (NO PUN INTENDED) **ALSO PHYSICAL VIOLENCE** Ricky Hoult was not a guy's guy. He was not tough, or badass, and he didn't like sports or NASCAR or gambling or anything that he construed as being stuff typical guys liked. He didn't know how to change a tire or refill his washer fluid. He had no idea how to fix a toilet or a leaky faucet. He didn't know how to fight and would probably get his ass handed to him if he did get into a fight.None ...
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Why the hell did I sign up for this shit, I thought to myself, not for the first time, as I tugged the prison issue jumpsuit from my body. They let me wear a robe into the lab, but I had to take it off before I entered the chamber. I’d already been thoroughly inspected from head to toe, even cavity searched, to make sure I didn’t have anything on me that wasn’t organic. Even my fillings had been removed. I could tongue the empty holes in my mouth where they’d pulled the teeth that had once been filled with metal. Why am I doing this… my hea...
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