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Novelette 11,530 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
Damon’s UBI royalties just crashed. His social capital went up in smoke. His girlfriend left him. Now he finds out he’s going to die. What to do? Solve his own murder, for starters…and maybe, just maybe, strike it rich along the way.
Content warnings 3
deathsubstance-useviolence
Quasar links out; the story lives on Reactor, where the author gets the click.