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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     Maybe they were just doing regular
research like a lot of the other labs, 
but then why weren’t we allowed to do a
weekly change-out?                     
     They either washed their own      
cages, or it didn’t involve mice at    
all.                                   
     “What do you think’s going on in  
there?” I asked Alicia, after explain- 
ing the locking system. “I mean, that  
locking system certainly doesn’t look  
like it’s regular research.”           
     “I really don’t know,” she said,  
and then added, “but I’ve heard a lot  
of rumours.”                           
     She told me some, and most of     
those were about genetics. That made   
sense, especially since genetics was   
such a big deal here.                  
     How big a deal? Alicia once told  
me that a genetically modified mouse   
cost anywhere from a hundred dollars to
thousands of dollars apiece.           
     Thousands of dollars for a mouse! 
Wow! And some of our customers bought  
hundreds at a time, sometimes thou-    
sands, and that just wowed me again. If
mice were going for thousands of dol-  
lars a pop, I could just imagine what  
was going on in that Secret Room,      
especially since the military was in-  
volved.                                
     Volunteering to clean the Oh Oh   
Room seemed like the perfect plan,     
until it didn’t work.                  
     For a year it didn’t work, and the
only thing I learned was that every    
other month, the eighth picture        
switched back and forth from that One- 
Star General to a younger woman wearing
Captain’s bars.                        
     Out of all of them, she was the   
only one smiling.                      
     Anyway, all I had to do every     
morning was empty two garbage cans, re-
place the bags, and make sure there was
enough toilet paper in the bathroom.   
That was pretty much it, except for the
freezer. That was in the bathroom, and 
it’s where the frozen mice were stored.
     Once mice were euthanized, they   
were put into one of seven freezers.   
Those were located in different places 
around the Vivarium, including the Oh  
Oh Room and the other room I cleaned.  
     Every Thursday, everyone had to   
bring them down to Shipping and Re-    
ceiving. Someone would unlock a door   
for us, and then we’d put them in two  
big freezers that were located way in  
the back, in another smaller room.     
     Someone from Shipping and Receiv- 
ing told me that a guy from the next   
state would come pick them up, but     
that’s all he knew.                    



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