The streets were dark, only bits and pieces illuminated by rusty street lights—and even then, the light was faint and reached the ground in large, dim circles. An ordinary-looking, simple-seeming man walked down the streets though, ironically, looking for light in his pitch-black life. He hugged his stomach, feeling sick as he went over the plan. It would be simple, he told himself. In and out, lightning fast—but something nagged at his gut, gnawing on his insides. It was the realization that things might not go according to plan—the realization that his life would change forever, irrevocably. He forced those furtive thoughts down, reminding himself that change was good. Change, he mused, was a bit like getting on a large roller coaster. He could spend his whole life staying away from it, but his cowardice would haunt him forever. Most importantly, change was in the air, and he would chase after it.
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Catching Capecitabine
HumorA fake emo. A perfectionist. A crazy teacher. A small-stakes robbery. A money-crazed CVS manager. An accomplice. An unlikely robber. All of their stories collide when Jacob's civics teacher urges his class to find the perpetrator of a local burglary.
