Strangers in the Night
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Mitts stared back into Doctor Smith’s eyes.
He didn’t know what to say.
He just wanted to be back . . . back in the other world . . . in the new world.
His world.
When Doctor Smith spoke again, his voice was a low drawl.
It seemed that he was mumbling to himself.
“Like two strangers in the night,” he said.
Mitts strained to trace words with his ears.
He could no longer tell his lips to move.
But it didn’t matter.
Not anymore.
“He gone?”
Mitts vaguely heard the assistant’s voice in the background.
“Almost,” Doctor Smith replied. “Better that we get on with the process before we lose him completely. Don’t want him to get rooted down here on this rotten old apple core.”
Mitts dimly heard the humming of computer hard drives.
The gentle ebb and flow of his thoughts.
They sloshed.
In and out. In and out.
Like the tide.
At first the scent of sulphur was distant.
Then it was up close.
Before he could really believe it, he was there.
Somewhere else.
Away.
Among the Strangers.
THE END
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Strangers in the Night
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART ONE
THE INSISTENT RAIN
A VISION OF HELL
PART TWO
SEVEN YEARS
THE HUMAN SPECIMEN
SALTED WOUNDS
THE HUNT
A MIRACLE
PART THREE
AWAKE, AT LAST
RESURRECTION
EVERYTHING CHANGED
ANOTHER LIFE, ANOTHER START
. . . UP!”
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