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Sharp Undoing by Natasha King (audio)

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The Forcible Transmission of a Slotting

The city in disarray is inhabitants barricaded in homes and hiding places fearful of being flunzed out of their own minds. Their strategy was not to kill people outright if it could be avoided, but to slot them in case they knew something useful. The forcible transmission runs the mind open, kills the body either immediately from shock or soon after from asphyxiation. This happened to us. Yes. We knew all this because we became the leader that night. Well, we should say he became us. What he won his prom memories.

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