Whitcomb Part 2

By Stephen Shypitka

Dr Ian Whitcomb set out to improve the human condition only to become destroyer in this Frankenstein tale of technology crossed love.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Stephen Shypitka
• Release date: Apr 12, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005804633

Stephen Shypitka

Stephen's eBooks have sold across 4 continents in Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Jamaica, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Romania, Switzerland the UK and the US. His online success has allowed his work to be noticed, read and savoured with his fiction for our times that turns heads, crosses genres and connects us all. Stephen was born in British Columbia, Canada an alumnus of USC film school in Los Angeles, he has taught the craft and loves to travel.

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Whitcomb

By Stephen Shypitka

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© 2021 Stephen Shypitka

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Dedication

The Villa Diodati

CONTENTS

Part II

Five Interludes

Six Lab Rat

Seven Departure

Eight Contaminate

About The Author

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Whitcomb, futurist-apostate

Tobias, friend-monster

Ellie, bureaucrat-lover

Gauthier, colleague-betrayer

Lord Stanley, entrepreneur-egotist

Roman, brother-coveter

Lillia, abandoned-adulterer

Vanessa, an Essex girl

You may ask what is the purpose of this?

To wreak havoc with your very soul.

Whitcomb

Part Two

Madness is the ability to leap beyond the bindings of normal striking down all reason where passion is cut open, left bare and bleeding. Wary the mind the dwelling place of the madness in us all.

Pray, you never witness such a monster.

Chapter 5

Interludes

A man, if he is to be a great man must rule his head. His convictions Sheldon? Must be of metal. Like this knife here.

Accoltellare.

Knife in Italian.

I kept practising my Italian as best and when I could, but still, I struggled with it.

Not like the china.

Whitcomb raised the plate I had just served him.

Porcellana, I said.

The ornate plate against the wall. Shattered.

You see? What did that accomplish? Whitcomb asked in earnest.

You've made a mess which I'll have to clean.

I reached for the wall to wipe the stain.

Away. When suddenly the knife landed into the fresco. Precisely.

Just missing my head as if to make a point. I reached for my shell. Half expected the lobe to be severed. It was that close, mate. My hand moved to the knife. I yanked on it as the wall yielded, it gave way leaving a hole behind. My fingers instinctively tracing its dark borders. That could have been me? I handed the knife back to him.

Signor. I quipped.

Whitcomb took it with a smile.

"You see, one holds its shape, the other turns to chaos. One must rule one's

emotions or lose one's head."

It made me laugh. It made me worry. A thought entered my mind that seemed never to occur to him. There was a third outcome. He managed to turn a tool into a weapon.

***

I finally gathered my sea legs and was allowed back into the lab. I watched in earnest, but I must confess, I found my gaze wandering. Wondering, if I would ever see her? But she was nowhere to be found. Perhaps, if I fainted again? No, we had