Act I “I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to splash you.” The words barely escaped Emily Carter’s mouth before the woman standing over her took another step forward. Water dripped from Emily’s wet blonde…
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Act I “I can move it back right now.” Claire Bennett’s voice was barely audible above the industrial washers roaring around her. She stood beside a rolling laundry cart, one hand gripping its…
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Act I “My leg hurts. I’m moving.” The injured inmate barely finished the sentence before Officer Blake Harlan stepped into his path. The narrow prison hallway stretched between rows of iron doors, its…
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Act I “I’m just trying to stay warm.” The old man’s voice trembled in the freezing prison yard, but he kept both hands wrapped around his faded gray coat. A narrow patch of…
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Act I The papers were still scattered across the polished stone floor when Daniel Whitmore looked down at the young woman he had just kicked and ordered her to apologize. “Do you understand…
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Act I The zipper snapped halfway up the red dress, and the actress reacted as if someone had just insulted her in front of a million people. “Are you kidding me?” Vanessa Cole…
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Act I “Trash. Wipe it before I say cut.” The words rang across the cardio floor of one of Miami’s most exclusive gyms, where mirrored walls reflected rows of expensive machines, LED lights…
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Act I “Trash. Scholarship servants fix everything.” The words echoed through the university seminar room just as twenty-year-old Emily Parker struggled to push herself upright beside the presentation table. Her gray sweater was…
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Act I “Trash. Bow to the guests.” The hotel manager stood over a twenty-seven-year-old front desk clerk, his black suit perfectly pressed, his nameplate gleaming beneath the lobby lights. Behind him, several check-in…
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Act I “Trash. Clean it for my viewers.” The words came from a young woman in a white crop top as she pointed her phone at a twenty-year-old employee kneeling beside a sticky…
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