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Prompt: 016. hand<\/h1>\n

1. “Don’t make me show you the back of my hand.”<\/h2>\n

A. “Don’t make me show you the back of my hand.” It was supposed to be a joke, but he realized he’d made a mistake when he felt a breath on the back of his right ear. When he turned his head to look, his mother was glaring at him from less than a foot away.<\/p>\n

“I didn’t mean it,” he said.<\/p>\n

“You better not have. Or I’ll show you the back of my hand, and I
\nwon’t be joking.”<\/p>\n

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2. It was gone. Only a stump remained at the end of his wrist. They’d amputated his hand.<\/h2>\n

A. It was gone. Only a stump remained at the end of his wrist. They’d amputated his hand.<\/p>\n

Tears gathered in his eyes. He’d trusted them when they said they wouldn’t do anything without his permission, yet they’d drugged him and cut off his hand<\/em>. The betrayal stung even in the face of his loss.<\/p>\n

The door began opening. He hurriedly wiped his eyes dry on the pillowcase and the shoulder of the hospital gown he wore.<\/p>\n

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3. It was supposed to have been a simple hand off. She should have known things weren’t going to be easy.<\/h2>\n

A. It was supposed to have been a simple hand off. She should have known things weren’t going to be easy, because when in her life had things ever been easy?<\/p>\n

Police sirens rang out in the distance and she speed-walked away from the hotel. She flipped her hood up over her head and tried to look like a normal person taking a walk down a busy street, and not someone carrying a backpack full of contraband.<\/p>\n

There was a buzzing in her ears and she could feel her pulse throbbing in the tips of her ears and at the sides of her neck. It felt like everyone she passed was looking at her, remembering her face to tell the police.<\/p>\n

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