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2. Blood and Welcome
I wake face down on a slab of broken concrete. My head pounds like someone is beating a drum inside my skull. Dust coats my tongue, blood drips from my ear, and every breath scrapes my throat raw. I groan and press my palms against the stone but my arms shake so hard I almost collapse. The world blurs until I count slowly to ten. On the eleventh breath the spinning slows. I push again, haul myself into a sitting position, and blink sweat from my eyes. That is when I notice the bright square floating in… -
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1. Checkmate and Collapse
I reach pushup eighty and drop flat. Sweat splashes on rough cement. Cedric walks by my bars, the light above him buzzing. “Hey, Charles. Still want a book? Something to pass the time?” He waves an old paperback. I sit on my knees. “Pass the time? That is my whole life now. Slide it in, Cedric.” The hatch clanks. The book is Biological Psychology. The pages are yellow and smell like dust, but to me it is fresh air. I breathe in the smell and let the words slow my heart: stress, fear,… - Previous 1 2 3