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The best stories are told with the fewest words.Or, rather, the fewest sentences.
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My friend requested this one:“A young prodigy becomes orphaned.”Also, until I get ~70 chapters, the word count will be very low so please read this guys.
Chapter 12
April 30, 2025 at 04:11 AM
Christmas music blares from every sound system in the building, red and green decorations litter the living rooms, and he sits in his lab with a paintbrush between his teeth as he paints the Mark 57 green; it’s almost Christmas, and he’s going to make sure it’s a great one.
But when he takes off the Santa hat, when he puts the Christmas cookies in the freezer, when he turns off the music, he lies awake in bed and stares up at the ceiling, remembering how exactly twenty-six years ago, a cold metal hand wrapped around his mother’s throat and choked.
He sniffles and turns over in bed as he stares at the wall, and the cold of Christmas finally settles into his bones.