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The Blizzard and the “Vitamins”

Words: 3124 · Source Novel:: The Consent Form

A snowstorm strands seven individuals in the old Waylan Correctional Facility infirmary: retired warden Aldous Halloran, pharmaceutical consultant Grace Fell, journalist Leo Taggart, ex-inmate Marcus Waylan, nurse Ella Storm, attorney Dennis Burkett, and elderly Dolores Crockett. While exploring a locked cabinet, they find a blood-stained diary signed “Subject 7.” Grace insists the controversial pills were simply vitamin supplements. The argument escalates. After sipping coffee poured by an unseen hand, Grace collapses, seizing. Before she dies, she whispers, “They were sugar pills...”