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honorable mentions to the lines:

p. 318 'You're so cute, baby,' Staxxx said. 'You really think you have to help me. You want me to kill you?' this one makes me sad now in hindsight

p. 292 "Later that morning, Hendrix Singer walked back out into the young sun and the dew-splashed grass and looked to the sky. The blue/white made his mouth water, as if his body were craving a bite of cumulus." so.funny to.me

The resources provided by the Prison Policy Initiative were a great help in researching incarceration in America, as was ProPublica.


usually great things in the acknowledgements

Im glad it just ends here, i dont want to hear anyone's opinions in the public or in the Chain about how this went, or how they felt about it or anything.

I feel like it should be focused only on these two.

But with that, I don't want to see Thurwar being sad and broken, so ending it here just saves us from that.

'Gotcha,' Staxxx said, and she dropped LoveGuile to the ground.
Before the scythe could find the earth, Hass Omaha rose and blew Staxxx away. The two were freed, and Loretta Thurwar stood among the people, who'd been thrown to a rapturous, rapturous silence.

I really felt like staxxx would sacrifice herself, honestly I could see either of them doing it but here we are

even though I guess it was clear what low-freed meant i wasnt sure until Randy's low-freedom

"She kicked forward, and heard Staxxx gasp, and the sound of it made her want to split herself open."


we're only getting Thurwar's pov in this fight

"To survive, Staxxx had to let go of LoveGuile completely, and Hass Omaha came crashing to the floor as Staxxx's boot crashed into Thurwar's face.

The first strike to land.
She had missed but she'd swung through, and knowing she could made Thurwar feel something worse than anything she'd ever felt.

Her body, the feeling said, I know it hurts, see the hurt, feel it, then move."

stopp thisss

"Thurwar turned her body while holding on to the scythe and swung hard and down toward Staxxx's crown. To survive, Staxxx had to let go of LoveGuile completely, and Hass Omaha came crashing to the floor as Staxxx's boot crashed into Thurwar's face."


stop this

why do I see and incomplete page on 359? no way it's about to be over


"LoveGuile bounced off her armor amd was rearing back to cut through her face when Thurwar pressed forward"


can someone or something interrupt this already, it's getting too real

"They let go of each other and Thurwar looked one last time at Staxxx, this warrior who had shocked the world by being herself.

The killing time was here.

'You ready?' Thurwar said.
'Swing through,' Staxxx said.
'What?' Thurwar said.
'I love you.'
'Wait,' Thurwar said.

But Staxxx had already pulled away.

'You and me,' Thurwar said.
'Us,' Staxxx said. "


i dont want to turn the page