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    Necktie Party
    Necktie Party
    Necktie Party
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    Necktie Party

    By Jackson Allen

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    Just as their small Southern town began to experience a re-birth on a new way of industry related to neurocybernetic technology, a terrorist attack destroys their city and someone is going to pay. Now, two old farts must talk a mob of angry, frightened people out of murder at a broken down motel in post-collapse America.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJackson Allen
    Release dateNov 22, 2021
    ISBN9798201946623
    Necktie Party
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    Jackson Allen

    Jackson Allen is a science fiction writer who lives in the Pacific Northwest. He is currently working on his first sci-fi series. Learn more at www.inkican.com

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      They were hanging John Boudreaux.

      Two minutes before? I sat looking at a bright-eyed, fresh-faced hologram in the middle of the floor. As I watched this cute little blonde demonstrating 'Motel Pilates,' I thought to myself: that's the perfect metaphor for America now.

      Random chance brought us together. When I sat on that ruined motor court bed, it made the outlet short out. The jolt turned on a cheap Malaysian holoprojector showing a cute blonde girl in yoga pants. She demonstrated 'Motel Pilates', and I couldn't help laughing. There's some bleak humor in watching her silly dance moves across million-year-old green shag carpet.

      Light flickered across a cracked bathroom mirror, musty blankets on a stained mattress. All my worldly possessions sitting in a rough canvas bag on a scratched Formica counter. No pills, no money, not even my phone. Seventy years on this planet, all I had to show for it was a laptop, a change of clothes, and my shaving kit.

      Ten more! Here, in all this misery, a cute little blonde doing poses like nothing was wrong anywhere. The camera zoomed in on her tight little butt. What else would

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