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The Last Gavel

Words: 2185 · Source Novel:: Blood Tithe

On October 7, 2024, a solar pulse annihilates all digital and electronic infrastructure. Within St. Clair Federal Correctional Complex (fictionalized as "Ironheart"), guards abandon their posts. Mitchell Marbury, a disgraced civil rights attorney now inmate #4478, watches the warden’s helicopter vanish. That night, the Estes brothers—descendants of a frontier hanging judge—begin their first "courts": a summary execution of a snitch with a sharpened spoon. Mitchell recognizes the ritual: his own grandfather once did the same in a Dust Bowl prison camp. The bloodline awakens.