Short Story: Farone Deals With The Devil

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veryone makes deals with the Devil. We all get down on ourselves, we all stress and we all stoop to that level sometime in life. Not saying it’s a good thing or a bad thing. Things happen and it’s hard to control if you have been at that level your entire life! There is a person that has been guided by the
Devil their whole entire life, he fights, he steals, lies and is entirely led the wrong way. He had previously been In jail a month before this all happened. He gets out of jail and goes to Wal-Mart for the first time in a long time. Well you know, he doesn’t have any money but he said he wanted to go in there to “look around”. He had 3 friends with him and they all were money hungry. Things weren’t going for them like they wanted them to

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