Whitcomb Part 3

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: 9781005673574

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 III

Nine Surgery

Ten Betrayal

Eleven Arrivederci

Twelve Rendezvous

Thirteen Chrome

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 Three

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 9

Surgery

Tobias had come to. To find himself in a dark room. A single light shone down on him. He could feel the warmth of it against the coolness of the darkness.

Where am I?

Knowing instinctively this wasn't the lab.

Had Whitcomb locked me away? Deep somewhere ashamed of what had happened?

The undoing of his science. Almost the undoing of his self. It made him shudder. He looked up into Whitcomb's eyes and did see something he hadn't seen before. Uncertainty.

Good news Tobias, your new hand is almost ready.

Tobias moaned. It had brought it all back to him. A look now at his stub. How he had hoped it was all just a bad dream? But it wasn't.

We're ready to attempt to re-attach—

Attempt? Tobias was surprised. Concerned even. His head turned upright direct to Whitcomb.

This was the first time he had ever used the word, attempt, in his vocabulary. Accomplish would have been more fitting. Definitely what I wanted to hear, especially when it came to surgery with me hand, mate. And—

We?

I'm not an expert. Whitcomb's eyes stared carefully back at him. In this surgery such as yours. I, however, know someone who is accomplished and you deserve the best. And you know him as well, thankfully.

What? Whom? Tobias was doubly pained.

Doctor Jean-Paul Gauthier, he's on his way from Paris as we speak. Whitcomb with a reassuring smile.

No, Tobias couldn't believe he was hearing this. This was the worst possible outcome. He would be found