
by Cultivore
For thirty-three years, five months, and twenty-seven days, Hank Crowe killed the things that crawled out of the System. Then he retired to a little house in the Dallas suburbs with his long-suffering wife, and figured the next generation would pick up the sword.They did not.The System's slipped free and it's spreading, wearing the happy, shiny face of the ultimate self-help tool. It'll make you prettier, richer, and just plain better, one cheerful notification at a time. Just do what it says, and everything will be great. All it costs is a little bit of your soul. Each and every month.And now the System's rolling up Hank's driveway wearing the skin of a GrubGoblin delivery driver to enroll another happy subscriber. Hank's grandson.To keep the boy off its menu and the System from turning the world into its feeding trough, Hank will have to do the one thing he swore he'd never do. Break his 12,234 day 0-level streak and log into the System.Because the only way he can finally beat his old enemy, is from the inside. One sliver of his soul at a time.
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