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Submitted to Contest #324
(Content Warning: This story depicts physical violence, abduction, animal abuse, and arrest) The Constable slides the unopened orange drink across the metal table. The scraping of the aluminum can as it travels across the stainless-steel table hurts my teeth. My blood sugar is low enough that I am inclined to ask for help. I manage to point to the ring on top of the table that I am handcuffed to and fight the urge to say “Well, it’s not going to open itself.” The man in a cheap suit wearing an unusually thick amount of drugstore cologne push...
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