"It seems like you can't feel pain anymore - holding burning guns, walking through fire, moving with 38 different broken bones - and you still don't like tiny old needles?" warning: mature content involves intense and graphic sequences of violence.

a lost girl without a name heads into the grimy streets of the badlands headfirst, imprisoning her not only in the ghost of a city, but inside of her own mind. the city is a dystopian paradox, built off of the sins and lies that hold her captive long after she tries to escape. "Welcome to the BADLANDS."

Once bitten, twice shy. [#24 IN SHORT STORY]