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Lorinda’s gun may be empty, but the way she wallops assholes with it, it doesn’t need bullets.

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Brad is SUCH a tool. And Crystal is great.

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Our authors have certainly painted Lorinda into a box. It's going to be fun seeing what comes next.

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Crystal is good people. I like her.

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I am scared to see what comes next...and impatiently waiting for the next chapter.

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An underground railroad for white women.

Crazy, man.

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Don't think it doesn't exist right now. It does.

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Jaysus but this story has hooked me and reeled me IN hardcore. I really like this new character, Crystal, the New Harlem barkeeper. That woman is a a wise, well-connected badass who's going to be able to help Lorinda fend off Brad and sort out what to do next.

An entire week is just TOO damned long to wait for what comes next. It seems important to be honest to the incredible authors of this thoroughly engaging tale, the esteemed Misters Weiner and Radlauer, and confess that I've contemplated going to Amazon, seeking out "The Split" in it's properly bound entirety, making a quick purchase, and then surreptitiously reading it in its' entirety in one sitting.

But in the interests of fair play I will resist that compulsion and spend another week ruminating potential plot twists forthcoming...

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Same. When it started, I thought, "Oh, christ, I don't know if I can handle all the alt-right conditions these people live under" but, chapter by chapter, you just get more and more drawn in despite it being scary af.

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Reading through it this way certainly DOES amplify the myriad anxious, frightened, frustrated, resentful, confused, bitter, optimistic, hopeful, stubborn, determined, enraged aspects of the story.

This plot hooks you and is now reeling us in week by week.

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Question about the graphic at the top: how did California and the entire Pacific Northwest end up in the CCSA?

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The authors addressed that at the beginning. The graphic isn’t intended to be accurate about the geography of the new split country.

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Aztlan went South.

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Ack, harrowing! These last few installments have had me on the edge of my seat.

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It would be all too easy for Greggy and Tater Tot to slip right back into this. That is, more than it's bad now. That scares me a lot.

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And me as well.

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