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Parks gently eased Ross’s jacket away from his stumps. He stared at the remnants of Ross’s arms and wondered how it would be possible to fit a pair of hooks onto such meagre short stumps. Both stumps were almost identical. Both were rounded nubs below Ross’s elbows and there seemed to be about two inches of stump. Parks understood enough about what he was seeing to know that Ross was going to have his work cut out mastering artificial arms. He would have very little leverage to control artificial forearms from his short stumps. Parks did not relay his thoughts.

Excerpt: Putting on his calliper and boots every morning became routine. Sometimes, after a particularly hard day, he would want to take them off the moment he came home, and often Michael, true to his word, was there to do that for him. As he moved about the flat in slippers, or slip-on shoes, he felt unsupported, unprotected, and often used a stick. When wearing his calliper he swung his right leg forward from the hip, using no muscle power in the leg itself. He made himself rely entirely on the calliper, as if he had lost all muscle function, and in time this resulted in some wasting of the muscles in his right leg.

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Legless men wearing artificial legs. Not peg legs or stubbies. Only good-looking daks with clothes on.