AmyStrange & the Criminal
(Part 1: the Escape)
                              Copyright © 2019 by David P. Ayotte
THIS BOOK IS NOT FOR CHILDREN
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CHAPTER 3: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22nd

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     “In those cases, a knife is used  
to severe their spinal cords, and      
death’s supposed to be instantaneous,” 
Denise  said, and then added, “or so   
I’ve been told.”                       
     That got me thinking about how    
that would work with humans, but in-   
stead of going there, I tried to con-  
centrate on what she was saying.       
     There were three reasons why re-  
search mice were killed.               
     The first was to see how a project
was progressing. One or several mice   
were chosen at random and euthanized.  
     The specific area being researched
was then poked, prodded, measured,     
photographed and analyzed in so many   
different ways, that I couldn’t even   
begin to explain them all. At least,   
not without starting a whole new Jour- 
nal on that subject alone, and if you  
think this one’s boring. That one’ll   
put ya in a coma.                      
     The second was when it ended. The 
expense of continuing to feed mice they
didn’t need any more, suddenly became  
an unnecessary expense, and thousands  
of mice were killed in one swoop.      
     That’s the one that got me worried
about the Darkness, but the third rea- 
son was even more troubling, because   
that one happened right in front of me.
     Denise was emphasizing that point 
by stabbing me in the chest and yel-   
ling, “The third reason... THE THIRD   
REASON! REALLY! PISSES! ME! OFF!!”     
     “What the fuck, girl?! That       
hurts.”                                
     “Sorry, but that’s how it makes me
feel.”                                 
     I looked back at the de-contamina-
tion line and began to get a lot more  
than just a little worried about what  
the Darkness was gonna do, especially  
since there was nothing I could do     
about it? I had to idly sit back and   
watch them take a mouse away to die.   
     I wasn’t in any way looking for-  
ward to finding out what happened next,
but that’s as far as we got before the 
cages started coming in, and we had to 
do some real work.                     
     Denise showed me how to dump the  
cages one more time. Once I got the    
hang of it and started going a little  
faster, she switched to feeding them   
into the Tunnel.                       
     She pushed a button, the spray    
jets whooshed on, and you couldn’t see 
to the Clean-Side anymore.             



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