Hi y'all! I'm Funkypotato9 and I am absolutely thrilled to participate in the Open Novella Contest 2023. It's gonna be a fun time! I am always aching to write a good ol' noir/neo noir story and this is an opportunity I could not let pass. I need my dark characters with witty dialogue and cynical worldview and it's such a fun genre!

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This is gonna be a bit of a twist but a good one! This is the first time I ever write for an official contest and I'm hoping everyone submitting will have as much fun as I will.

This story of course contains fairly CW stuffs which I'll give a shout for before each chapter.

Thank you so much for reading this story and I assure you there'll be plenty fun stuff like lasers, swords, a homme fatale, corporate warfare, experiments, weird ass gizmos and magic all the way through.

If you're writing for ONC too, I wish you the best of luck and I hope anyone reading this has a wonderful day/night and remember you're amazing ;)

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PROMPTS USED:

Prompt 36 – Your character awakens to find a dead body in the bed next to them and a duffel bag full of cash on the floor. But the scariest thing is, they have no memory of what happened, or even who they are.

Prompt 13 – You were at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and now you're running for your life!

Prompt 49 – "Master the rules of the game until you can play it better than they can." Michael Scott, "The Sorceress."