The Placebo Effect
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Last published Sun, Aug 27, 2017
Blythe Adams hadn't been expecting much when she moved to George Station. It was, after all, a plain and neat university town, full of normal people with normal lives.
After searching for a job and not being able to find one, she enrolled in a
mysteriously well-paid drug testing job.
Her and 13 others move into the dorms in Northwall Laboratory, all the while being 'studied' to find the effects if the drug, supposedly a 'memory enhancer'. But people keep experiencing strange side effects, and Blythe wants out. You can only take so much blood spillage after all.
And when people start dying, the survivors realise this is more than an experiment.
It's a game. They are the players.
There are no rules.
There are no survivors.
And they aren't the ones rolling the dice.
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