The Constricting Present
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Last published Tue, Jun 14, 2016
A#13's life is simple, and if you ask her it's totally normal. Every day starts with a fist fight, but one day she starts to question it. The lab is her whole world, but it can't be the whole world, can it? Escaping the lab wouldn't be so hard, if you had more than one day.
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