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Prose Challenge of the Week #51: Collabowrite. Write the synopsis for a Prose Collaborative Book where the genre is Psychological Thriller. The winner will be chosen purely on reads, likes, comments, and shares. See Challenge of the Week Post #52 for more details. The winner will receive $100 and 50% royalties for their chapter. Runner-up will receive 1000 coins. When sharing to Twitter, please use the hashtags #ProseChallenge #getlit #itslit
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Walls of New Caledonia

Trevor Queens graduates from Brown. Just like his father, he is a psychologist and can't wait to put all that he learned into practice. To his surprise, the acclaimed Nerz Institution offers him a position. When he leaves for New Caledonia, he is astonished by the beauty of the clinic; his future workplace. He settles into his study, and begins working as the psychologist of the nurses working in the facility. After a few months, he is familiar with everyone, except the treated patients, because he never sees any. Every nurse seems reluctant to answer his questions regarding the maintenance, while they are eager to share every detail about their life. Trevor can hardly disguise his qualm. Adelaine, the Chief Nurse offers him a 2-week recess as their patient.

Trevor abides and makes two discoveries: how The Nerz Institution provides such successful research and why they employed him.

He was the only missing piece.

The only missing specimen in Adelaine's Zoo of Schizophrenia. There is no way back.

Can he escape? Is he able to convince the other inhabitants to stand with him?

But most importantly, should they leave at all? Is the Zoo a prison, or a shelter?