What's Stopping You?

Massive trigger warning.

I'm writing a novel for Lent, because November is a shite time to write a novel for me. I had this great idea for a sci-fi near future dystopian thing, but then....well, this came out instead.

The names and details have been changed enough to qualify as fiction. Please don't try to break the reality boundary I'm setting up here. It's probably a TOU violation for you to do so.

If this one triggers you, you definitely don't want to read what's going to come out next.

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That's about 900 words. About 41,000 more to come. Constructive critique welcomed.

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Somewhere inside me, this has all happened before....

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