The Rust-Colored Cage

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(Variant V-03: Dirty Realism) **Act I: The Lottery of Misery** The recruitment center in the outskirts of New Jersey smelled of stale cigarettes and industrial detergent. Arthur Penhaligon didn't apply for the Solaris Initiative; he was "selected" through a bureaucratic lottery designed to clear the city's debt-ridden underclass. He stood in a line of fifty other broken men, all of them wearing...

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