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Welcome listeners to another edition of Fast
Food Horror. Today's story is about a

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college student who's found herself at the
edge of her wits, down on her

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luck, and willing to do anything
to make ends meet. In this story

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entitled The Job listen Sting by e
Jay Miller, voice acted by e Jay

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Miller and their debuting Stephanie Miller.
So it's been about two weeks. Two

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weeks since that night. I haven't
loved my apartment. I've had my grocery

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just delivered, but I haven't had
much of an appetite. I haven't gone

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to any of my classes, and
I haven't hung out with my friends either,

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all because of that night. If
you're listening to this, I was

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right, and what I'm about to
tell you is the truth. I know

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it may sound crazy. God I
still can't believe it, but it's why

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I'm not here and you are listening
to this. I'm recording this not to

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get justice. Those responsible are so
outside the grasp of the law that they

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are the definition of the well connected
elite. They're so well practiced at evading

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detection. I'm only posting this here
just as a warning. My name,

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my name is I'm a second year
grad student at the university. A few

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months ago became a very apparent that
I was running out of funds. Let's

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be honest, I was going to
get evicted and kicked out into the streets.

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Trying to balance a full time college
class schedule, studying plus work enough

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to cover rent from her meager one
room apartment and to pay my bills.

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Tuition and groceries have become impossible.
I started researching other ways to make money.

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Credit cards and loans were no longer
an option. No one was going

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to give me a loan, let
alone a credit card to help me get

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ahead, and there were no job
options for a college grad who still had

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no discernible skills that would cover my
growing bills. Yeah, I'll be honest.

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I gave it thought to stripping and
only fan pages, but I don't

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think I have assets to get a
big enough return. If you get my

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drift. I started scanning Craig's List
in other job forums for anything outside of

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prostitution, something that could assure me
a payday and keep my college dreams afloat

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and me off the streets, which
is when I found the oddest job listing.

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It read wanted private blood donor once
a week in my home five thousand

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dollars cash. Clean donors only.
Drug users need not apply. Vegans preferred

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serious inquiries only. Email at gmail
dot com for more information five thousand a

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week. That if that was real, would not only get me out of

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my current financial trouble, but get
me well ahead. It sounded too good

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to be true, But what the
hell did I have to lose? Right?

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I emailed the contact and waited.
Within an hour, I received an

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email reply. In it read thank
you for responding. Before we proceed,

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we request some information concerning your current
health, as well as a brief family

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medical history. We have provided you
a link to complete a brief health questionnaire

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before we move on to the next
step. The link will expire in thirty

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minutes. Upon completion of the questionnaire, you will be compensated for your time

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as a gesture of our appreciation and
a show of our legitimacy in future transactions.

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Renumber to provide your pay friend account
for this and any future transactions.

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Your answers will be considered private and
anonymous. We appreciate and respect your privacy.

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We hope you will respect ours.
I went to the bottom of the

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email and found a small crust or
sigil clicked on it, a black dragging

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on the field of red with some
letters I really couldn't decipher, framed by

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gold. After a brief hesitation,
I decided to click the link. I

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was guided to a nondescriptive web page
with lines of questions following by a blink

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box after each to type in my
answers. The questions range from dietary to

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drug use, alcohol use to smoking, prescriptions, to family medical history and

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the current fitness level I mean.
I answered each in rapid succession. I

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have never used any drugs, no
prescriptions, couldn't afford cigarettes, and was

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an avid runner. Let's just sum
it up by saying that my medical history

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is really boring. I provided my
pay friend and vote and clicked scent.

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The page went black, and within
thirty seconds I received a notification from pay

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friend that my account just received a
payment of a thousand dollars. I kept

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refreshing my screen a couple of times
to make sure I was reading it right,

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But there it was. My account
was up a thousand dollars. Yeah.

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I did a little dance and then
I waited. I fell asleep watching

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the screen. When I woke the
next morning to my email screen showing one

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new message from a new email account
that I didn't quite recognize. I clicked

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on it and it read thank you. We have received your health questionnaire and

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after careful review, we would like
to move you to the next step in

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the process. An appointment has been
made for you at a health clinic where

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a sample of your blood will be
discreetly taken and put through a blood panel

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to assure us of the forgive the
verbiage purity of your blood again. Upon

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completion of this, you will be
compensated for your time and any results will

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be kept in strict confidence. You
have two hours from having clicked this link

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to attend your appointment. I thought
I was up a thousand after simply filling

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out a questionnaire what would I get
as a compensation for going for a blood

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test? I dashed out the door
and hailed that taxi as fast as I

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could to the clinic, which was
about thirty minutes from my apartment and in

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a not so great section of the
city. I completed the blood panel and

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I opened my email as I walked
out of the clinic door and saw the

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notification for my pay friend. Three
thousand, three thousand dollars payment has been

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made to my account in twelve hours, I was up four thousand dollars.

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Four thousand dollars. Seriously, at
this point I should have just stopped.

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In hindsight, I wish I had. I was four thousand dollars up.

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I mean, come on, I
had financial breathing room and time to find

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a respectable employment. But I was
hooked. What was next? What was

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the next hoop? And how much
would it net me? Or did we

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just go right to the blood donating? I waited. I received an email

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from an unknown account that evening and
it read good evening. You have been

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selected to proceed to the next step, provided you are interested and are willing

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to comply with some security measures.
In one hour, a black car service

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will arrive outside your location. Please
leave all electronic devices at your abode.

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Knock twice on the rear passenger door
of the vehicle upon its arrival, and

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the door will open. Enter the
rear of the vehicle and you will find

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a blindfold. This is to protect
your privacy. Please place the blindfold on

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and keep it on until you are
instructed to remove it. The vehicle is

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automated, so there is no worry
about any other persons in the vehicle with

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you. That will be very evident
when you enter it. The vehicle will

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then drive to our location. The
door will open upon arrival, at which

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time you will be instructed to remove
the blindfold and enter our location again.

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Do not remove it until you are
instructed. Upon your arrival, you will

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be discreetly and professionally chet by our
staff for any weapons or items of worry.

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You will then be guided by our
staff to our physician, who will

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then administer the blood withdraw Upon the
completion of the process, you will be

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return to your abode the same way
you arrived via our black car service,

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with the same stipulation to keep the
blindfold on until you hear the vehicle door

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open. Upon exit of the vehicle
as offered, a five thousand dollars payment

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to your pay for an account will
be made. This agreement will be continued

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once a week until such time you
no longer wish to participate or you break

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the terms outlined here. In one
further stipulation, during the blood withdrawal process,

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we ask that you keep your eyes
closed. The physician atmistering. The

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procedure will tell you when you are
to close them and when you may open

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them. It is a request for
our benefactor and is not negotiable. I'll

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admit I became blind to all the
warning flags that I should have seen.

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All I could see was regular income
of five thousand dollars a week for some

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odd requests of blood donation. I
complied for nine weeks. I followed every

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roll, every request outlined. Every
week, at ten PM, a black

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car would arrive, unmanned outside my
apartment. I knocked choice on the door.

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The door would open, I entered, I put on the blindfold.

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The vehicle then drove for about I
would say an hour, as near as

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I could tell. It then stopped
and the door of the vehicle would open.

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A mail voice asked me to please
remove your blindfold. I found myself

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in the company of a nicely dressed
man clad in business attire with military haircut,

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who smelled of extensive muskie after shave. We were in an empty underground

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parking garage, no other vehicles,
other person, no signage. He wished

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me a good evening, guided a
wand about my body. He instructed me

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then to please follow me, and
I did. We entered an adjoining building

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and I was led down a maze
of halls to a medical room, where

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I was greeted by a pleasantly plump, older gentleman who introduced himself only as

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our benefactor's personal physician. My escort
left us, and the physician guided me

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to an empty chair and began the
process of setting up his equipment. I

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won't go into the details of that, I'm not a pull of bomonomist,

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but when he seemed content that his
tools were in place, he asked that

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I closed my eyes until instructed to
open them, and I agreed. When

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it was completed, I was told
to open my eyes. The needles had

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been removed, the bag of blood
already taken and whisked off. My escort

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returned to the room and led me
back to the vehicle. I downed the

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blindfold and was returned via black car
service. For nine weeks, this was

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the process or each return home.
My pay friend account was plus five thousand

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dollars. This brings me to the
crux of the story. Two weeks ago,

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just after I was told to close
my eyes before the needle was inserted

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into my arm, I got a
feeling, this feeling that someone else was

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in the room. I never heard
footsteps or I wore the door open.

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No words were ever exchanged. The
physician always on my right side. I

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could hear him home as he went
about his work, but I could swear

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I could hear the faintest of deep, shallow breathing coming rhythmically from my left.

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I knew it was in my escort. His after shade would have been

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a dead giveaway. But when the
physician told me to open my eyes,

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there was only the physician there.
So tonight I did what I was told

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not to do. I really wish
I hadn't. Not knowing was more of

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a blessing than the curse of being
aware of what was next to me all

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these weeks, I had a to
peek and see if I could get away

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with it. I didn't want to
kill the golden goose. I had gotten

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used to those weekly paychecks, but
I wanted to see what was to my

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left when the blood started drawing.
I got a haircut, nothing over the

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top, but had the stylus give
me bangs that would at the right tilt

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of my head just hang over my
eyes. And then I went out and

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I bought fake eyelashes just long enough
that if I closed my eye slightly,

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I could still see through the lashes
and the bangs, and no one would

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be wiser. At ten o'clock,
the black car service arrived at my home.

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I knocked twice. The door opened, and I placed the blindfold over

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my eyes. The vehicle began its
journey to the parking garage. The door

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opened upon arrival and I was greeted
by mister Aftershave, clad in his business

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attire. He wanted me and greeted
me with a pleasant smile. Then he

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led me down the hallways to the
medical office. There I was great by

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the physician, who guided me to
my chair and set to work like clockwork.

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When his tools were set, he
instructed me to close his eyes,

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and as I planned, I closed
them just enough to give the impression to

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any that were looking at me that
I was complying with the instructions of my

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physician and in turn the benefactor.
As I felt the gloved hand of my

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physicians touched my forearm to insert the
needle, I heard again the faint,

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deep whisper of a shallow breathing coming
from my left. I slowly scanned my

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eyes to the right. There was
the physician, humming as he went about

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his work. And then I scanned
my eyes to the left, trying to

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remain as undetectable as possible, trying
to remain subtle, trying not to garner

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any attention. And there was the
source of the breathing. It almost stopped

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mine. Five feet to my left, Shrouded in the darkness of the corner,

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dressed in a black gown of sorts, was the frail, thin figure.

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My eyes first focused on its tentative
fingers, white and unnaturally long,

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thin with yellow long finger nail.
My eyes slowly scanned up from the frame

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of the figure, gaunt and shallow, a sickening white mask of a face,

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black eyes sunken into the skull of
a face, no white about the

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pupil or iris, just glossy ebony
eyes of the darkest black below a smooth,

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hairless face and skull, and its
mouth, Its lips, if it

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had lips, were pulled back to
expose a maw of well used, sharp

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fangs. I could see his eyes
were fixed on the needles as it entered

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my skin, and I watched the
reflection of those ebony eyes, and as

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his attention followed the flow of my
blood from the needle slowly up the tube

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to the bag where it was being
collected alongside the chair I sat in.

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I could see the drool collecting in
the corner of the right side of his

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mouth. I could see the rise
and fall increase with each passing minute as

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he watched the flow of my blood. And now I understood what purpose I

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truly served in this exchange. I
tried to keep my breath under control.

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I tried really hard to keep from
screaming out. I tried to keep from

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reacting to what I was seeing.
The money no longer meant anything. I

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was no longer in this for the
money. I wanted this to be over.

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I wanted to survive now that I
knew who and what my benefactor truly

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was. This thing that has been
feasting on me for weeks, This monster,

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this demon that kept watching me every
night as the blood escaped my veins.

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This vampire. This is how he
had survived, preying on people who

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came to financial peril, paying for
clean blood in order to survive, taking

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great pains to secure his secrecy.
In the world of social media, where

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everyone is connected. I turned my
eyes to the right, ever so slightly,

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and focused my attention on the physician. Still unaware of my deception,

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I heard the shallow breathing getting louder
on my left. I could almost feel

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it across the skin of my upper
arm, hot and ragged exls. I

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slowly guided my eyes to the left
and saw that my benefactor was now only

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inches from my nose. My eyes
locked on those two black pools, and

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I couldn't move. I was unsure
of its next move, and I was

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unsure of what mine should be.
It broke the silence. You have broken

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our agreement. I saw through your
little charade. You aren't the first to

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try this floy and I'm sure you
won't be the last. Such a shame.

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Your blood tasted so sweet, this
agreement. It allowed me to live

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in privacy and seclusion. There is
safety in that for my kind, and

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I was unburdened with the task of
having to dispose of so many bodies,

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so tedious. And it allowed you
to survive such a shame, such a

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share. You may go. The
car will take you home to your home.

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Remember I know where that is.
You'd best be served to remember how

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much I enjoy my privacy. That
is the only thing keeping you safe.

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I hope we have an understanding.
I nodded my head, I felt the

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needle withdrawal from my arm, and
saw the door open by mister Aftershape,

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and quickly made my way out down
many halls to the parking garage, into

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the black car service that had awaited
me to take me home. I locked

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the car doors, I downed the
blindfold, and I held my breath until

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the car moved. I seen it, the demon, the monster, the

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vampire. I see it every night
outside my window, solemnly, patiently waiting

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outside my tenth floor window, waiting
for me to give in, waiting for

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me to leave or or invite him
in so sweet