Quick and Painless: A Satirical Reimagining of the Invention of the Guillotine
ATtheHuman
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  • Reads 1,324
  • Votes 266
  • Parts 33
  • Time 2h 27m
ATtheHuman
Ongoing, First published Apr 03, 2020
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After being thrown off the social pyramid when he had a child with a black girl, Andreas Moreau gets a second chance when he's asked by the man he works for, Antoine Louis, to help build a new invention of his; The beautiful execution machine that would give justice to all: the Guillotine.

With the hopes of buying his wife out of slavery and creating a future for his son, Andreas complies and feeds Louis' idea. He can't predict the impact the Guillotine would have on his country, let alone the world.

Told in a series of letters, Quick and Painless is a story of family, devotion, and catastrophe.
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