Marcus didn't have the money for a new game. He barely had the money for the instant noodles sitting next to his keyboard. But he had built this PC himself—a Frankenstein monster of spare parts and bargain bin deals—and he needed to race. He needed to feel the G-force simulation, the way the game blurred the edges of the screen when you took a corner too fast. It was his escape from a semester of failing grades and a part-time job he hated.

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