Tahlia Day
Table of Contents | 12 August 2024
Sunbeam for a crown, loam for a throne, the bones speak
please, do not try to escape from your body.
You don’t go gettin’ police robots to chase you through the Westside because you want to have fun. But the excitement that Tariq felt at the thought of this challenge ... He’d outrun actual cops. He’d outrun the wheeled robots they called "The Chris Browns" (on account of all the dancing they did in their promotional videos in the ’20s).

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