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The hands were all Edgar could focus on. Hands. Empty hands. His hands. He looked at them as he perched, almost bent in half, on some tattered blue fabric chair in the sterile waiting room. The smells of that room filled his nostrils. Antiseptic, sweat, stale coffee and tears, tears that combined into an odor that burned into memory. But the hands held Edgar’s attention. They were the only things that were real. He wanted to use them, to control them, to direct them to hold onto just anything. But they couldn’t. Nothing was there. She had gone. There was no one to hold, no hand to hold, and the loss was more than mind could comprehend or even bear. – Excerpt from ‘Unburdened’
Life has happened, old age is a coming reality. Before time takes its final bite there is one more chance to live. Edgar Dobson’s wife of many years has died. Her death is a cue to get on living or prepare for dying. Gathering his friends born in blood Edgar decides to give it one more go. Orphans all, raised in the system, invisible to anyone but themselves, the group joins him for one last opportunity to make their mark and make a difference. Moving to a state that has legalized pot sales they begin. But the old guard doesn’t want competition or anyone infringing on their power or profits, legalization be damned. It’s time for the experiences of life to overcome the fortress of corruption with deadly precision and no remorse.
