IJ study archive

the Get-Even man and the detox on the cell floor

quote

He took zero in the way of shit and was a cheery but implacable exponent of the Don’t-Get-Mad-Get-Even school.

Context

The active addict's temperament and its costs in one pairing: the jolly, implacable Get-Even élan that runs the toothbrush-revenge caper, and the reason revenge was owed — ninety-two days in Revere Holding that included a nasty impromptu detox on the cell floor. Withdrawal glimpsed sidelong here, involuntary and unmanaged, is the same physiology the program will later teach him to survive on purpose.

Quoted from

In anthology