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Basic Instinct

Excerpts from Shooter, a Novel of Basic Instincts

Travis Woods·
Issue 136: Neo-Noir 2024
"He’s backsliding. Falling into old, bad habits. And he has to admit, he more than kind of loves it. It’s almost as if, during these last three months—the sobriety, the no smoking, the celibacy—he was pulling undercover duty again. Except this time, the role he'd been playing was the version of himself the rest of the world wanted him to be."
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