The Hand Job

by Rip Peterson

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younger.”

They definitely wouldn’t.

I don’t have any options.

I don’t want to go back.

I don’t think I can survive off the grid.

I don’t want to eat bugs.

Wait.

Wait.

Breathe.

Fuck, I forgot that the US wasn’t the only country in the world. Canada
wasn’t too far from where I was.

It might take a few months to trek to the border on foot but I could do
it. It’s not impossible.

Fuck yes.

Canada. He won’t be able to get me there.

Hopefully, I can make it before they find me.

If you notice the President seeming more coherent or energetic than usual,
or possibly unexplainably a little younger, or maybe he does something so
unimaginable everyone asks why; those will be the signs. And then you’ll
know.

You’ll know that I didn’t make it.