GARY C-88

Reality type: Meat-based

Species: Human

Known aliases: Cletus

Replicant type: Rural NPC

Best before: 11/10/2035

Known associates: Darlene

Interests: Mountain Dew, Darius Rucker, dirt roads, guns

GPT linguistic simulation:

The accent took a while to pick up, but after a few years Gary felt as at home as someone hiding out in the Everglades could.

Through meeting Darlene, he discovered the freedom of truly bearing one’s soul to another human, in a way he never had before. He revealed he really was, why he was hiding out, and every detail of his nefarious past: the who, the what, and the how much. No more lies.

Their marriage may have been swift, but they both knew what they had found. In Darlene, he had found a woman with whom he could share anything and never feel judged. In Gary, she had been blessed with an opportunity to blackmail someone into running her meth lab.

As he rocked on the porch after another long day of accounting, deliveries, and cleaning down chemistry equipment, Gary uncorked the bottle, and again cursed the day he had decided to stop lying.