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Cassidy Only Has One Secret

A Short Story by Emily Weber
    Cassidy was not a nice man. This was partly because he was owned by the Galactic Government; he was held to a rigorous schedule and had been since he first became property when he was three years old. He was also grumpy because he was an Absorber, which in turn was the reason why he was owned by the Galactic Government in the first place.
    He had just turned thirty-seven and absorbed his three-hundredth person’s memories from an approved individual, a doctor who’d lived on the moon of Tydd. It was important to have personalities and memories approved by the Galactic Government; only those with stable, healthy minds could have their memories taken by an Absorber. Otherwise, Absorbers tended to go insane.
    Still, it had been a grueling process to get the proper approv