Choke
Author: Chuck Palahniuk
Victor Mancini has devised a complicated scam to pay for his mother’s hospital care: pretend to be choking on a piece of food in a restaurant and the person who ‘saves you’ will feel responsible for you for the rest of their lives. Multiply that a couple of hundred times and you generate a healthy flow of cheques, week in, week out.,,Victor also works at a theme park with a….Read More
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