AmyStrange & the Criminal
(Part 1: the Escape)
                              Copyright © 2019 by David P. Ayotte
THIS BOOK IS NOT FOR CHILDREN
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CHAPTER 1: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15th

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     “The real battle's gonna be when  
you have to admit the truth, and that’s
gonna be the hardest thing you’ll ever 
do, but it’s also the one thing that’ll
cure you. I guarantee it.”             
     “You already know the answer,     
don’t you? Why don’t you just cut the  
bullshit and give it to me?”           
     “Believe me. I’d love to give it  
to you straight,” you said, “but you   
won’t believe me, until you figure it  
out for yourself anyway. All I can do  
is help guide you there.”              
     “Not even a clue, huh?”           
     “Nope,” you said and got up, “Now,
get the hell out of here, before I     
start charging you even more money.    
     “And don’t forget that Journal,”  
you added and then closed the door on  
me.                                    
     I thought that’d be easy, espe-   
cially since you didn’t care what I    
wrote.                                 
     “Even if you just babble incoher- 
ently, I don’t care. I just want to    
read something you wrote,” were your   
exact  words,  but  that  was obviously
bullshit too.                          
     On my way home and with that in   
mind, I stopped and bought a big note- 
book and some pens. I started writing  
that night, and by our next session, it
was almost full.                       
     “What the fuck is this shit?” you 
said, after reading the first para-    
graph, and then tossed it back at me.  
“This is gibberish, masquerading as... 
Shit, Crim, did you just open a dictio-
nary and randomly write words down?”   
     I reread it, and damn, you were   
right. I always thought my writing was 
ok, but this was crap, and double damn,
that really was hard to admit, Doc.    
     “I think you need to take some    
writing classes,” you said, “and while 
you’re at it, you might as well take   
some on computers and psychology.”     
     “Do I also have to take a butt-   
fucking course?”                       
     “No... just take calculus. That’ll
be enough.”                            
     Ha, ha, I made that last part up, 
Doc, but taking classes did sound like 
a good idea, except there was no way I 
was doing calculus. Sorry, Doc.        
     The psychology classes were inter-
esting, though, and I ended up taking  
more than just a couple of those. They 
helped explain a lot of things about   
the subconscious and how genetics      
played a sneaky part in all of it.     



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