Chuck Coma tried to lie still in his hospital bed. But there was a spasm in his chest, like something inside was fighting to get out.
“It says here you had an injury in 2016, and you've been jerking since then. Are there any triggers?” the technician asked, wrapping a tape measure around his head and marking it with a red Sharpie.
“No, it just happens.”
Chuck was in yet another doctor's office, this time the neurology department of the Veterans Affairs hospital in Seattle, Washington. It had been nearly eight months since he came home from federal prison, after serving roughly 15 years for armed bank robbery. And it had been 3 years, 5 months, and 25 days since “the incident” inside that made his life as a free man not so free after all.
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