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Fiction

The Free Will Exam

Luke Tarassenko’s hero finds himself at a testing time.

We entered the hall one after another in silence, found our names and numbers, and sat down at our allocated desks. Being a Buckland, it was always easy to find my place, usually near the entrance to the hall and quite close to the front.

My chair scraped a little as I pulled it out. I assembled my writing implements on the desk, in a ritual that I was now well accustomed to. In front of me, Black did the same.

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