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    Death Count
    Death Count
    Death Count
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    Death Count

    By Nicholas Stillman

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    A trend of deadly thrills and extreme sports has spiraled out of control. Lee, a daredevil ice climber, must survive a stalker who kills for giggles. But can Lee and his sumo wrestler friend, Jeremy, survive their own proclivity for danger, isolation, and pushing their limits? As Lee loses connections with friends, family, and even reality, he finds himself lost in a dystopia of supersoldiers unaware of their own engineering.

    With young men diving toward death all around him, Lee must take on the ultimate challenge: to resist his ever-growing mindset for murder.

    Get “Death Count” now, and take a winter warrior’s ride through the killing path.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStillman Sci-Fi
    Release dateNov 17, 2017
    ISBN9781386893837
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    Nicholas Stillman

    Nicholas Stillman writes dark but entertaining science fiction. His weekly short stories and collections aim for variety and novelty with fun and thought-provoking twists. They often branch into dystopia, crime, horror, medical fiction, black comedy, romance, adventure, adult, and the completely new. Some of Stillman’s themes include civilizational collapse, addictions of the future, medicine in space, dark psychology, and the terrifying fate of our healthcare. Stillman offers monthly free short stories at StillmanSciFi.com. Get yourself free, easily accessible short stories for life--the perfect way for any science fiction fan to spend time on commutes or at home.

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      When Lee collapsed on his back, the packed snow under him felt like concrete. Teary-eyed and panting, he choked on hot saliva and gazed up. The ice cliff towered over him, still imposing despite the streak of other twentysomething men who conquered it weekly. Lee had clung to some of their abandoned pitons during the more desperate parts of the climb. Reliance on those erased any sense of accomplishment, and that burned worse than his taxed muscles. Yet the ice would have thrown him to his death if not for the spike handholds. His numbed fingers and bones ached as though broken, as though a fall really happened. Having reached the ground safely once again, he eerily wished it had.

      Why...why did I do that?

      He gasped the words out at the winter sky. The wind tore away his foggy breath and left no answers. The afternoon sun rolled like a ball and gleamed off the slick bluff above. Lee’s hand rose by itself, although it felt impossible. What did that? What force lifted that clawed glove to his face? He saw not only the glove’s gray, specialized hooks, but also the stupidity of it all. He had scaled the whole cliff using only the gloves, his sweaty jogging clothes, and crampon-strapped boots.

      I don’t know why I did it, Lee said as he pulled off his climbing gloves and pocketed them.

      So I could record it, dumbass, came the voice of Jeremy.

      Jeremy, all 400 pounds of him, loomed into Lee’s view. The aspiring sumo wrestler blocked out most of the ice cliff. Lee swore his friend could

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