By His Hand

By William R. Perry

It began when Bill's hands began to cramp in odd and painful grips each morning. Soon he finds himself helpless as his body grows progressively more numb each day. His illness is a medical mystery. Although his mind is sharp and active, he can only watch as he inexplicably withers and decays into complete paralysis. 

Awaking on his 40th day in the hospital, his family and friends from church find that he is miraculously cured. Bill's hands and limbs have begun to move and feel, but they do so with a life all of their own. Bill is still trapped, defenseless within his own body.  Whatever is controlling his actions has a dark and terrifying intent, yet no one sees beyond his miraculous healing.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Red Cape Publishing
• Release date: Feb 17, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215709740

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By His Hand

William R. Perry

DISCLAIMER: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are products of the author's imagination and are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2023 Red Cape Publishing

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Case #: SV061422

Originating Agency Case #: N/A

Person Delivering Evidence: Ofcr D. Daniels

Date Evidence Received: 4/13/22

Time Evidence Received: 20:22

Location Evidenced Received: 3131 Goshen St. Chatsworth CA

ITEM #1

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Description: Multi-page handwritten document.

Location Stored: SVPD Locker 23 - Original scanned into database SV061422-1.pdf (Transcription below)

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Description: 32gb SD Storage disks from Pentax K1 Mark II DSLR Camera

Location Stored: SBPD Locker 23 - Original files copied into SVPD secure digital hard drive. Contains - three hundred and fifty-one (351) unique .DNG files (duplicated and converted to .JPG for review) and seven (7) .MP4 audio/video files

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Description: Google Pixel 6 mobile phone (818)445-XXXX

32GB micro-SD disk extracted and files copied to SVPD secure digital drive. Contains - 12 unique .MP4 videos and 164 .JPG images.

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Description: Adventist Hospital Incident Report

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Transcript of handwritten letter follows:

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To whoever finds this, please give it to the police, or newspapers, or whoever you think will read it. Please don’t send it to one of the fucking tabloids. That’s the last thing I want.

I’m writing this to clear my name or at least explain. I’m fully aware of how much this sounds like bullshit. I questioned everything that happened the same as you will. I’m not making excuses. I just ask you to look back at the man you knew before this all started. Is any of this consistent with THAT version of me?

Ask anyone who knows me. I was a good guy. I was a good dad. A good husband. Not perfect, by any means, but not the monster that you know now.

I’m not saying that I didn’t do any of it. Obviously, there is a mountain of evidence, and of course the photos and the video and all that. But again, I ask you to look at who I was and try to open your mind to concepts like faith and evil and spiritual warfare. I’m not asking you to forgive me and I’m not trying to plead insanity to save myself. I just want people to know what really happened and not the narrative that seems so simple and so obvious.

If you know me, or at least knew me from how I was before, you’d know I was pretty cheerful. I was pretty funny too. I wasn’t the freaky, loner type. People liked me, I think. My co-workers and friends from church all enjoyed being around me. I took pride in being someone that they counted on to make any job or service project more fun. I was always cracking jokes. I even tried stand-up one time.

I was not (am not) the creepy, two-faced ‘sleeper’ that was all churchy on one side while hiding some dark, fucked-up, other life.

If you spent any time around me in the last few years, you’d know that I live