AmyStrange & the Criminal
(Part 1: the Escape)
                              Copyright © 2019 by David P. Ayotte
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CHAPTER 1: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15th

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     The zeal in which we all attacked 
the Initiative Process was amazing. I  
liked that part a lot. The group did   
its job well, and we got it done and on
the ballot for that November.          
     My problem wasn’t with the group, 
but the  Initiative itself. It really  
didn’t do much to punish or stop animal
cruelty.                               
     Except, that it at least added    
some serious jail time, but only after 
you’d been caught doing it more than a 
couple times. The thousand-dollar fine 
remained the same.                     
     Even before the Initiative went up
for a vote, I knew this wasn’t gonna be
enough, and that was my second problem 
with the job.                          
     Getting signatures was too damn   
easy. Getting my hands dirty shouldn’t 
have been that easy, especially for    
what I’d done. I remember wanting to   
die saving animals, but all I was doing
was pushing paper around.              
     How the fuck am I putting my life 
on the line doing this?                
     If it’d been that damn  easy, the 
Darkness would’ve been gone a long time
ago, but it wasn’t. I could always feel
it back there, waiting to pounce.      
     Election Day, I was still working 
with the Initiative group, making last 
minute cold calls, and they even asked 
me to help them with another Initia-   
tive. At least, I wouldn’t be out of   
work yet.                              
     On my way home, I stopped at a    
downtown bar, to catch the early       
results.                               
     As the numbers came in, it seemed 
like the voters were believing the cam-
paign that was waged against it. At the
time, I thought, who were these people 
behind this shit?                      
     It turned out to be some associa- 
tion of cattle farmers. Their theory   
was that this law would be the begin-  
ning of the end for all meat eaters.   
     It looked like the voters had fal-
len for it, but I didn’t care about any
of that anymore, because as the numbers
against it were turning into a land-   
slide, I could feel the Darkness shift-
ing and getting ready to pounce.       
     I could tell this wasn’t gonna be 
a small-time pounce either.            
     Small time was bad enough. The    
guilt would sometimes get so overwhelm-
ing, that I’d have to take a day off   
from work. I’d spend the rest of  that 
day back in that trailer trying to     
figure out what went wrong.            



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