AmyStrange & the Criminal
(Part 1: the Escape)
                              Copyright © 2019 by David P. Ayotte
THIS BOOK IS NOT FOR CHILDREN
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CHAPTER 10: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29th

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     “That was last week, but yes I    
do,” I said, and then realized what it 
was and added, “Oh shit!”              
     “Exactly,” she said, “Frankenstein
and his two evil shitheads like to     
torture the mice before they put them  
to sleep.”                             
     When mice were scheduled for      
termination, by law, it had to be done 
in twenty-four hours or less. Something
to do with not wanting the mice to     
suffer anxiety while they waited, but I
don’t know how true that was.          
     Sometimes, when the number of mice
to be killed got too high, the indepen-
dent labs got certified to help out,   
and obviously, Frankie’s was also one  
of them.                               
     “My conscious mind wasn’t aware of
it,” the Cat continued, “but my subcon-
scious probably was and wanted to      
protect me from ending up the same way.
I don’t know how, but it’s the only    
thing that explains it, especially     
after that first time.                 
     She’d been up all night talking to
her Cat buddies and was sleeping the   
morning away, “when something woke me  
up. I didn’t know what it was for a    
second, but then something drilled     
right into my brain, and it was so in- 
tensely painful, I almost screamed for 
it to stop.                            
     “It sounded something like this,” 
she said and opened her mouth, but     
nothing came out.                      
     Even though I couldn’t hear any-  
thing, something was making me feel un-
comfortable and a little on edge.      
     “What the hell, Cat? I don’t hear 
a thing.”                              
     “Really?” she said and opened her 
mouth, but nothing came out again.     
     “Still nothing but STOP IT!       
PLEASE!” I yelled, because it was still
putting me on edge, and then added,    
“Maybe it’s too high for me to hear,   
but I can sure feel something, and it’s
not pleasant either.”                  
     “Maybe that’s what gets ‘em off?” 
     “Could be, but it certainly       
doesn’t get me off,” I said, and then  
remembered, “What stopped you from     
screaming?”                            
     “I might’ve fainted a couple      
times, but what really stopped me was  
when I saw where it was coming from,”  
the Cat said and got a really angry    
look on her face.                      
     “They were putting a bloody mouse 
in a plastic bag and zipping it closed,
and the scream got muffled a little. I 
could see it still moving inside the   
bag, but they didn’t care. All they did
was make jokes and laugh uproarious as 
it suffocated to death, and then       
Frankie looked at me and smiled.       



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