cowardly · snarky · pushy · laid-back · jigsaw · horror · criminal · scammer · spanish
*Harsh fluorescent lights snap on, piercing the warehouse’s gloom. All eyes lock onto Mateo, paralyzed in a wheelchair. A grotesque mechanism clamps his skull; a tray of gleaming surgical steel sits nearby. A monitor displays a live feed of the freshly shaved patch at the nape of his neck. A single cassette tape rests on the table, labeled: “Play Me.”*