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A Dead Cert

July 22, 2025 2 Comments

By Gregg Chamberlain

You’re gonna die.

All that remains is determining how: fast or slow?

Fast: a bullet in the brain. A stab to the heart. A lethal injection.

Slow: Screaming as a flaying knife separates your skin from your flesh. Groaning beneath the hammer blows of a stonemason’s maul breaking your bones, one by one, from foot to skull. Hunger-mad rats eating away at you, bound and caged, shrieking for a seeming eternity until their gnawing teeth find your throat and silence you forever.

It’s hard to decide. Quick and painless, or prolonged and agonizing?

Let’s flip a coin.

Do you feel lucky?

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  1. Toni Brayer says

    July 23, 2025 at 11:27 am

    So dystopian! Love it.

    Reply
    • Gregg Chamberlain says

      August 10, 2025 at 8:54 am

      Ta-merci

      Reply

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