Whitcomb Part 6

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: 9781005050153

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 VI

Eighteen Monster

Nineteen Lost

Twenty Vancouver

Twenty-One Cragmoor

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 Six

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 18

Monster

Tobias' head was slumped, pressed against the black laminate of the lab tabletop, cradled in crossed forearms, he had fallen into a deep sleep. He sat there slumbering when a shadow crossed past.

I awoke from a nightmare. Found myself back in the lab where mares were commonplace more real than the living dreams themselves. I was queasy and always quick upon waking to check that I still had all me pieces that nothing had gone missing in the interim jolly between worlds. And so it was, no different this time, I found myself exhale with a sigh of relief, as I was all present and accounted for or so it would seem.

Coming to, I realised, I must have nodded off for when I looked around Whitcomb was nowhere to be found. It must have been his presence that I felt just slip by me upon waking. Why hadn't he roused me?

Not very embarrassing, being found to be asleep on the job.

Maybe, he was finally relaxing, letting go? After all, I had been through so much recently and in all honesty, I was finding it increasingly difficult to keep up. I was just plain exhausted, mate. Wore out, knackered beyond my years.

Tobias turned in his steel stool as Whitcomb entered somewhat agitated.

Startling me once again as I could've sworn he had just exited through the other door.

Where did you go?

More to the point, Whitcomb retorted, where have you been?

I tried to wipe the sleep from my eye nonchalantly, but he looked right through me.

Quit with the joke, he said.

I looked at him blinking blankly.

What you mean? Tobias asked.

I didn't even know how long I had been out? Was it day or night? It started to come back to me as I followed Whitcomb with my gaze as he picked up the table saw from the empty examination table.

Empty without a body except that it remained gruesomely bloodstained.

Ah, yes, the horrible autopsy on Roman, I remembered now, unfortunately. My stomach flip-flopped and I