Punishments intensify, homework loads skyrocket, and a terrifying attack during a blackout forces Evan to confront just how vulnerable he truly is. As he continues to lose control of his life, Evan’s thoughts turn to his past.

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Evan’s roommate Nathaniel makes a break for freedom.

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Evan overhears a terrifying argument between the Headmaster and the Discipline Teacher, leaving him terrified: if they find out about what he heard, he’s as good as dead. Then, mistakenly accused of vandalism, Evan is thrust into the Detention Center, where cold, isolation, and fear wear on his sanity.

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In Humanities class, another pupil slips a note into Evan’s hand, offering him a glimpse of a hidden resistance—if he’s brave enough to take the risk. Meanwhile, simmering tensions among the teachers escalate, and Evan realizes that, even though his home life wasn’t perfect, he misses his family.

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The pain in Evan’s feet escalates, sending him to the school’s infirmary for emergency surgery, where brutal treatment and end make recovery feel like another form of punishment. Evan can’t help but wonder—was the surgery necessary?

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Evan’s sixth day at St. Joseph’s spirals into chaos as the Discipline Teacher takes advantage of the pupils’ hunger by using food a new form of psychological torment.

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Evan survives his second day at St. Joseph’s, with with more physical and mental injuries to prove it. With every class designed to break him, he struggles to survive the rules he can’t possibly meet.

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Evan survives his first day at St. Joseph’s, with physical and mental injuries to prove it.

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The judge, unhappy with the theatrics of Evan’s trial, sentences him to a year at St. Joseph’s Non-Catholic School for Disobedient Children—the same reform school Evan’s troublemaking cousin wound up in a few years back. Perturbed, Evan recalls how that school turned his cousin into a zombie, and after a hulking “Bodyguard” arrives with the school’s enormous Pupil Manual, Evan quickly realizes the place is more threatening than anything he imagined. With his departure looming, he decides to bring his journal with him, hoping his writing will one day expose the truth about St. Joseph’s.

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Evan’s family and social lives fall apart after a misunderstand between Evan and his mother devolves to a screaming match and Anthony—Evan’s troublemaking “friend” who got him into this mess in the first place—mocks Evan. The trial begins, and the lawyer’s PR stunts collide with the reality of a courtroom.

This podcast is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.