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Last Train from Deadwall

Novelette 9,700 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources

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"The first time Knucklebone tried to kill himself, he’d already been dead for one hundred and thirteen years. He’d died in a workplace accident, which meant it was within their legal rights for the Cogsmith Railroad Company to bind his soul to his reanimated skeleton and hand him the invoice."

Science FantasyCorporate PowerBleak

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DystopiaClass InequalityTenseFast PacedFound FamilyFar FutureFreedomDarkSecondary WorldSacrificeWryFantasyClose Third PersonCharacter Driven

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suicideviolencewar

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