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The basement door was pushed open. The smell hit them like a wall, thick and suffocating, the same as it had been days before. But the two of them walked right through it, like they couldn't even smell it. They walked in, unsteady on their feet.Everything inside was exactly the way it had been left after the forensic team finished. The blood on the floor had dried and hardened into dark, black patches.Mom walked over to the corner, the one where my body had been found. She bent down and picked up the torn T-shirt I had been wearing when I died, and pulled it over her own head, right over her silk blouse.It was the kind of thing that no designer dress could ever replace. She curled herself into that same corner, wrapped her arms around her knees, and folded into the exact same position I had been in when they found me."This way I can feel her data," she said, and let out a strange, breathless laugh.She pressed her cheek against the freezing concrete wall, rubbing it against th
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A few days later, the power went out. No one had paid the bill, so the electricity company cut them off. Darkness flooded in like a tide and swallowed the mansion whole, the same place that had once been blazing with light. The only thing left was the pale moonlight coming through the windows, falling cold and thin across the floor. It was exactly like the basement.Mom lit a candle, but her hands were shaking so badly the flame kept dancing, stretching the shadows long and strange across the walls, like fingers reaching out. Dad sat hunched in a corner, unshaven, his eyes sunk deep into his face.He hadn't eaten in three days. It wasn't that there was nothing to eat. He simply couldn't get it down. Every time he closed his eyes, all he saw was the rust water that had filled my stomach.Mom stared at Dad's face and suddenly screamed. "Stay back! Stay back!"She grabbed a vase off the table and hurled it at him. It shattered at his feet."Have you lost your mind?" Dad leapt up an
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Dad was still fighting it. He straightened his glasses with one hand and tried to fall back on his usual talk about survival of the fittest."Officer, you don't understand."He knocked on the table. The handcuffs rattled, but his tone was still arrogant."Human evolution requires selection. The elimination of the weak is a law of nature. What I've been doing is conducting an important sociological experiment. In academic circles, some degree of loss is considered acceptable.""Shut up!"The young officer slammed his palm down on the table and stood up, pointing a finger right at Dad's face. "This isn't your lecture hall. You're a murderer!"What experiment? That's your own daughter! The law doesn't care about your evolution theory. Murder is murder!"That last shout shattered Dad's entire chain of logic. He opened his mouth, but nothing came out. His authority was gone. On the bench of law and morality, all of his grand theories didn't amount to anything.The next day, the stor
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"One less mouth to feed. You will last a few more days."Dad read the words on the wall out loud, his lips trembling as he shaped each one. Every single word landed like a slap across the face he was so proud of.He had taught me selfishness, taught me coldness, taught me that in a world like this, all that mattered was keeping yourself alive. He truly believed he had built the perfect survivalist, someone who would do whatever it took to stay breathing.But instead, I died out of love, out of a blind belief in every single one of his lies. His precious survival rules had failed completely.The guests had stopped keeping their voices down. The whispers turned loud, laced with contempt and mockery."Someone actually died. This changes everything.""What kind of elite education is this? This is outright abuse.""The experiment is terribly designed. They didn't even handle the most basic survival conditions."The bald man spat on the ground and wiped his shoe on the concrete with
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The silence was absolute. The only sound was the occasional whisper of air through the ventilation ducts, like something hollow breathing in the dark.Dad's hand trembled around the flashlight. The beam swayed back and forth between the bloody words on the wall and my body on the floor, as though it was trying to deny what it was seeing. Whatever he had been about to say caught in his throat and came out as a strange, strangled sound.Mom's wine glass slipped from her fingers and shattered on the concrete. Dark red wine sprayed across her white dress in jagged, blooming stains.She stared at the words on the wall, her face frozen. The composed, untouchable mask she always wore had begun to crack, right down the middle. The calm superiority was gone, replaced by something raw and desperate."This doesn't make sense," she said, over and over.Her voice was scraped dry, like she was chewing on gravel. "The vitals were reading normal. Yesterday… Yesterday, the numbers were still movin
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They reached the second door. Mom stopped and called for the housekeeper."Bring out a few gas masks. One for everyone."Mom held her hand over her nose. "The ventilation system down there is fine, but that kid's hygiene has been absolutely atrocious lately. It's going to smell terrible down there. I don't want anyone feeling unwell."The group put on the masks with giggles and grins, like they were getting ready for a costume party. Someone even struck a pose."Do I look like that guy from that zombie video game?"Mom fastened hers on. "Let's make this quick. The food upstairs is going to get cold."The pressure valve hissed open, and immediately a wall of stench hit them through the gap in the door, rot and blood and waste all fermenting together in the enclosed space for three days straight.Dad's brow tightened. Even he hadn't expected it to be this bad, though he recovered quickly, smoothing his expression back into place."This is what survival smells like, folks. You all
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