He called me Jay. I called him Dr Corvid. Until the very end, we lived alone. We
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had no use for any other companionship. I was Dr Corvid’s finest achievement until he perfected his Disintegration Ray. I was the first working prototype of Project Novus.
Dr Corvid created me in man’s image without the
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Kelsie and her husband, John, were sleeping in her parent’s old bedroom. Her mother couldn’t bring herself to sleep in the bed she had shared with the love of her life for thirty-five years. It was too soon after the funeral. She decided to sleep in Kelsie’s old bedroom.
Suddenly, the sound of a deafening crash
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I’m waiting for your voice. My trembling hand is so damp the phone could slip from my fragile grasp at any moment. Each ring burns in my ear and makes the washing machine in my stomach tumble faster and faster. After three rings, or it could be four, or forty, I
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“Helen, what in blue blazes do you think you’re doing?”
“What does it look like, Stanley?”
“It looks like you’re packing. Mind telling me why?”
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Some very serious people visit Melinda and her mother, belinda, the local “massage therapist”. No one is quite sure what is going on, especially Melinda, who finds the serious people quite perplexing … and they find her mother equally perplexing. So, what is really going on here? We may never know
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