Jam Crisis: a Debts to Recover Short Story (Volume 9)

The Wrong Choice Spelled Doom A generation ago America passed a law allowing a bankrupt person's debts to be bought by rich Masters. The debt slaves then belonged to their Masters for the duration of the debt. If they failed to pay back their debts then they clearly weren't worthy of normal human rights. They became nothing more than property, sold off as true slaves to cover to cost of their debts. Dustin had done his best in the debt slavery system but he'd failed. It seemed as though no matter what he tried it always ended in failure. He'd tried to be a good son, a good debt slave and then a good true slave, but at every turn he was shown in the most painful ways possible that he hadn't succeeded. Being sold to his new Master Augustin should have been a relief. Unlike Master Reyes, his previous master, Master Augustin was calm and controlled. But Dustin knew better than to trust the calm before the inevitable storm. Sometime soon his Master would snap and then Dustin would be the first thing to feel his Master's rage. All he could hope to do was stay quiet and be careful not to set his Master off. Unfortunately that was a doomed hope when his Master gave him impossible tasks to complete with incomplete information. Dustin tried his best only to fail for trying too hard. What Master Augustin told him after his fall changed everything that Dustin had ever thought and believed in ways he would never have thought possible.