I Used to Be a Doctor in an Insane Asylum — My Patient Destroyed My World

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Being a psychiatrist in a mental hospital
has many challenges, but one that you

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hope you never have to face is
the idea of literally bringing your work home

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with you. But what happens when
that barrier is broken? The sanctity of

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your home is violated and you are
left with nothing but your own electric rage?

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What's that you want to be scared? To? Come with me?

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I used to be a doctor in
an insane asylum. My patient destroyed my

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world by Michael Kelso this story needs
to be told. Those who have suffered

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must understand why it's not as simple
as some have made it to be,

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which is why it needs to come
from the person most responsible. Me.

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It began when I was least expecting
it. But then don't things always seem

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to happen that way? I'm telling
you, Doc, people just don't understand,

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Frederick said, while rocking back in
worth in the chair. What exactly

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don't they understand? I said,
trying to look more relaxed than I felt.

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There's just something that takes over.
You can't stop it. Impulse control?

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What's that mean? Frederick said,
struggling against his straight jacket, trying

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to get comfortable. It means that
when you want to do something, you

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try your hardest not to. It
means you try to control or suppress the

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urge to do things you know are
bad. Frederick's mouth alled open. He

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narrowed his eyes in confusion. Why
would I want to do that, I

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suppressed the urge to sigh, Because
that's what people do, I said.

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They think about doing bad things,
but then they control themselves and don't do

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them because those things are wrong and
could hurt other people. Hurting people is

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wrong, said yes, Frederick,
Hurting people is wrong. He shook his

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head as if he were trying to
shake away a fly that was annoying him.

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Why why is hurting people wrong?
No? Why are you telling me

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this? I don't understand. You're
saying I'm bad, he said, trying

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to raise from his chair. You're
saying I didn't need to hurt those people,

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that I'm a bad person. I
got up from my chair and started

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backing toward the heavy metal door.
I'm not bad, he yelled at me.

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You're bad. I knocked on the
door, and the orderly opened it.

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As Frederick got to his feet,
I slipped through the door as it

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slammed shut from the impact of his
body hitting into it. Bad, bad,

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bad, he screamed. Bad.
Da da da da da da da

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da da dud spit flew from his
mouth, landing on the small observation window

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with metal grates embedded in it.
Okay, doc, the orderly said,

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startling me. Yes, I'm fine, thank you. I turned and walked

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down the white hallway, hoping the
orderly wouldn't notice the quickness in my step.

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I ignored the sound of Frederick beating
on the door. I ignored all

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the sounds I heard. I just
wanted to get away. It was a

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long walk to my office through many
security gates. At each one, the

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nurse buzzed me through and gave me
an acknowledging look that used to be a

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smile. I suppose this place gets
to everyone eventually. I finally reached my

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office, closed and locked the door
behind me, and collapsed into my chair.

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I breathed out a sigh of relief
at reaching relative safety. I turned

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and looked out my window to the
beautiful flowers blooming on the trees in the

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courtyard. I looked up at the
tree stretching toward the sky. I remember

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when they planted those. I turned
back to my center, my means of

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solace, the only thing that mattered
in this cruel, unfair world. I

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picked up the picture of my lovely
wife and smiled. She was the one

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who kept me sane all these years. She kept me seeing the best in

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people, or at least trying.
Sometimes there was no good to see,

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especially in my patience. It takes
a special kind of doctor to care for

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the mental needs of those who have
done heinous things that are so bad they

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don't even bother sending them to prison. They send them to me. I'm

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like the dumpster for the dregs of
society. Just dropped them in the asylum

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and forget about them. I kissed
my wife and set her back on the

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bare desk, then turned on my
computer and added notes from today's session.

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There was never a recommendation for release. Once patients came here. The only

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way they left was in a bag. There was no curing them, only

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trying to make them docile until they
left. Oh, and there were experiments.

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That was a large part of how
we were funded. Companies would pay

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for certain tests to be done.
Some might call it torture, but we

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called it research. I finished typing
my notes and leaned back in my seat.

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The diplomas and degrees stared down from
their perches on the bare walls,

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mocking me. Demanding why I hadn't
gotten a better job. As usual,

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I didn't have an answer. My
office suddenly felt stuffy. I closed down

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my computer and left. Driving down
the packed freeway, all I could think

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about was collapsing on the couch beside
my lovely Elizabeth, not telling her about

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my day until she dragged it out
of me. Then listening to her encouraged

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me to help those who have been
left in my care because I'm the only

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hope they have. Traffic was bumper
to bumper and not helping my overall opinion

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of humanity much, especially when a
car that was swerving from lane to lane

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nearly sideswiped me. It kept going
on in front of me, nearly hitting

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several other cars. The driver and
passenger seemed to be having a disagreement about

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how to drive the car, and
it looked like it was about to come

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to blows. Fortunately they were soon
out of sight in someone else's problem.

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For the next few miles, I
kept watching the side of the road,

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waiting to see the offending car sitting
in a ditch. However, they surprised

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me. They must have turned off
to go terrorize some neighborhood streets with their

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reckless driving. I hummed to myself, not wanting to have whatever Drek was

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on the radio forced on me.
When I was nearly to my exit,

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my phone rang. I immediately recognized
the number as work. I contemplated answering

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it for a moment, then thought
better of it. There had never been

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a time when work called with good
news, and I was in no mood

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for bad news. I hummed a
little louder, trying to drown out the

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sound of the ring before it finally
stopped. The closer I got to home,

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the less I thought about work,
and the more I thought about Elizabeth.

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Until I turned off at my exit, I had nearly forgotten work altogether.

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Maybe I would take Tomorrow off and
go do something with my wife.

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We hadn't been out for a while. The weather had been lovely, and

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I know she would adore a walk
down by the lake. My thoughts were

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interrupted when I turned down our driveway
and saw a car in front of the

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house. It wasn't quite in the
driveway, it was sitting at an angle

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half way in the front yard.
I parked my car and slowly got out.

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Something struck me about this car,
but I hadn't figured out what.

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I approached the driver's side to have
words with the person still sitting at the

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wheel. Excuse me, I said, staying a few steps back from the

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driver's door. He didn't hear me. Excuse me, I said a little

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louder. Still no answer. I
tapped on the window, and he ignored

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me. I opened the door.
Okay, look, I said, but

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it was I who would do the
looking. The man fell out of the

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car, thudding on the grass.
The inside of the car was covered in

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blood. I looked down and the
man's throat had been cut. Oh my

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god, I said, jumping back. I watched to see if the man

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was breathing, but the way his
neck was bent at an unnatural angle against

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my yard told me everything that I
needed to know. I glanced through the

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car, but didn't see the passenger. It was then my eyes drifted to

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my front door. It was open. I stepped through the shrubs and up

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onto the porch, walking in a
daze. The surrealness of the moment had

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yet to sink in. I was
going inside to check on my wife and

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make sure everything was okay. It
didn't strike me as anything more than that.

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Oh, she just left the door
open. That's all. My mind

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kept trying to tell me that.
I wanted desperately to believe it, even

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though she had never been that careless. During the entire time we'd been married.

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I had pushed aside all reason and
common sense in favor of pure denial.

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Everything was going to be okay with
Elizabeth. Everything was always okay.

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She could literally light up a room
with her positivity. She was the best

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person I ever knew. I have
no idea how I got so lucky as

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to know her, let alone be
her husband. I floated in through my

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front door on my cloud of denial
and looked for my wife. It didn't

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take me long to find her.
There was one wall of the living room

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she was constantly redecorating. She always
said it looked bare and empty no matter

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what she did with it. She
was hanging from that wall, naked,

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her beautiful body desecrated by slices and
rips. Her throat had been slit and

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blood still poured from it. I
ran to her, tried to take her

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down, screamed her name, and
then it was my turn to scream.

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I looked down and saw a knife
blade sticking out from my abdomen. It

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was part of the cutlery set I
had gotten for Elizabeth three Christmases ago.

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I screamed as I slowly turned to
face my attacker. What's up, Doc,

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Frederick said, wearing a maniacal grin. The shock had punched a hole

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in my reasoning. I saw him
standing there, but I couldn't accept it

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any more than I could accept my
beautiful wife strung up like a macab painting

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hanging on our living room wall.
My eyes tried to focus on his face

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to make me recognize him as a
threat. How's that impulse control working for

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you, doc? He ripped the
knife out of my back. The pain,

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along with his arrogance, woke me
from my shock induced stupor. Now

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do you understand, he said,
as he shoved the knife into my belly.

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I did understand. I understood at
that moment that I was already as

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dead as my wife. I knew
that this piece of human garbage had taken

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something beautiful from this world. I
knew I had to do something about it

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before there was nothing I could do
before my body succumbed to injuries and I

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was unable. I grabbed him by
the throat. He tried to laugh,

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but My grip was fueled by desperation. He tried to free himself but couldn't.

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He began stabbing me over and over. I refused to release him.

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I carried him by his neck over
to the kitchen counter and began bashing his

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head off the marble. I was
rewarded with spots of his blood. I

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knew, at least I had made
him bleed, and that made me smile.

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His eyes grew wide as my grin
grew maniacal. I smashed him,

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repeatedly, crushing him against the sink, breaking the faucet and causing water to

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spray into the air. His eyelids
fluttered as he lost his grip on the

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knife. He was nearly gone.
I would take him with me, and

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that would be my parting gift to
the world, removing something so evil.

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Suddenly, my body wouldn't obey commands. My grip loosened. I tried to

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tighten it, but I had lost
all control. I looked down and I

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was standing in a pool of my
own blood. His eyes fluttered open and

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he coughed no, no, no, no no. I thought, he

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can't live, he can't win.
I had him. He stood as I

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sank to the floor. Looks like
maybe you do understand, doc, he

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said, from what seemed like miles
away. Too bad, you won't be

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around to discuss it. We could
have a session and evaluate how it makes

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you feel. His foot came down
on my spine. I felt a crack.

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He started kicking me in the side, repeatedly, splashing water and blood

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on me. As I felt my
ribs crack. I fought with everything I

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had. My body didn't even twitch. No, I screamed, it can't

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end like this. I heard a
sizzling sound, and then there was darkness.

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Did you hear that? Better check
the locks on your doors? Weakly

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spooky, We'll be right back.
I could feel movement. Wasn't dead?

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Was this what happened after? It
was still dark? Hello? I tried

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to say, nothing, just the
sensation of movement. Am I in a

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body bag? Am I on my
way to the morgue or the grave?

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Please don't let me be buried?
Alive? But I'm not alive? Am

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I? I don't feel any pain. That's a good thing, but not

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a good sign. The last thing
I remember was lots of pain. Suddenly

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there's a light and my movement stops. I look up from the floor of

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a house. I don't recognize where
the hell am I. I'm on the

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floor next to a wall, looking
up at an electrical outlet. Nothing around

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me seems familiar. I try to
stand, but it feels weird. It

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isn't difficult, and there's still no
pay. It just carries an odd sensation

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with it, like my body is
just relearning things, just like when I

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was a toddler. I teeter back
and forth as I rise, but eventually

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I'm upright. My first few steps
are tentative, but after that I gain

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confidence with each stride. Aside from
the strange surroundings, there's a sensation like

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ants crawling all over me. I
pass a bathroom and glance inside. The

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reflection in the mirror draws me back. I slowly approach it, seeing something

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unique and terrifying. It looks like
someone drew an outline of a human form

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using a lightning bolt. The electricity
shimmers and crackles as it races around the

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empty form of the being. I
wonder if it will hurt me, not

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sure if I want to test the
limits of my newfound lack of pain,

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I hesitantly reach for this creature.
It reaches for me. At the same

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time. I'm mesmerized by this mutual
curiosity. My hand is about to touch

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the electric pulse, shaped like its
hand. I tremble with anticipation and fear

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as we touch. Surprisingly, I
don't feel any pain. I don't feel

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anything except a hard surface. I
move my hand back and forth. The

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creature does the same. I make
quicker movements, and so does it.

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Finally, out of frustration, I
reach back and strike at the creature.

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My hand strikes the hard surface and
it splinters. There are now multiple creatures

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staring back at me. I step
back and make a horrible realization. I

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am the creature. One month later, and police have been unable to find

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any credible leads in the string of
brutal killings that began shortly after the patient

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to escape from the mental hospital last
month, the handsome anchorman stated from behind

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his desk, they're asking people to
call in if they know the whereabouts of

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Frederick Winston, now known as the
Mangler. In other news, the Larson

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Electric Company has issued a statement that
the recent power surges are no cause for

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alarm. These surges seem to be
random in people's homes and certain businesses.

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An LEC spokesman stated that there appears
to be no pattern to the surges and

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that so far, no one has
reported them causing any harm. LEC is

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tracking down the problem and should have
it under control soon. The anchorman shifted

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in his seat and turned to another
camera and on a lighter note, with

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Halloween months away, it seems that
reports of ghosts are on the rise,

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he said, wearing a half Grin
several area, residents have reported what they

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call a ghostlike figure outlined in light
visiting them. Reports vary as to the

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duration and location of the visits,
but they do seem to have a few

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in common. The visits are usually
short. In fact, most people say

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that if they blink, the figure
is gone. No one has reported the

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ghost doing any harm, and it
seems like anyone within close proximity feels a

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tingling sensation and their hair standing on
end. Maybe I should be visited by

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this ghost instead of my next hairdresser's
appointment, the attractive woman anchor said,

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with a laugh. Schedule me a
visit too, the male anchor said,

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smiling, And that's our news for
the evening. Good Night, Jimmy switched

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the channel gimme a break, he
said to the TV ghosts, who's playing?

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What this is some marketing scheme to
sell Halloween crap like that stunt they

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pulled a few years back with the
clowns hanging around the schools to promote that

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stupid movie. He switched off the
TV and rolled over in his bed.

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It wasn't long before his breathing slowed, but before sleep could take him,

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he noticed a glow in the hallway. He didn't remember leaving any lights on

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when he came to bed. Living
alone had its advantages. If he heard

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someone in his apartment, he knew
they weren't supposed to be there. He

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slowly reached over to the bedstand and
pulled out his glock nine millimeter handgun,

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then held it close and listened.
He watched as the glow moved. It

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seemed like someone was looking around,
but for what. He didn't really have

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anything aside from his TV, phone
and video games. If anyone wanted those,

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they would be in a world of
hurt. He had been lucky to

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get this apartment. If he was
honest with himself, it cost more than

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he could afford, but when he
had the chance, he took it.

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It was too bad. The opening
came because the person who lived there before

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him was one of the Mangler's victims. That's probably why he was able to

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rent the place so quickly and get
the price down to where he could afford

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it. Almost maybe the the glow
was one of the street people who were

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stupid enough to see if there was
an empty apartment to claim. That wasn't

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gonna fly either. Jimmy had jumped
on this apartment to get away from the

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dingy rat hole he used to live
in on the other side of town,

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and there was no way he'd let
some bum come in here and take what

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was his. The glow crept closer. He could feel the hairs on his

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arms raise. There was a sound
too. It wasn't loud, almost felt

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more than heard, a soft crackle
like electricity. When it sparked. The

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sensory input was almost too much for
Jimmy to take. He pointed the gun

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in the direction of the glow and
saw the barrel was shaking. His resolve

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that he could deal with anyone as
long as he had his gun was beginning

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to fade. The glow became so
bright that it finally took form Jimmy's eyes

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widened. It was the form of
a person, just like the news,

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it said. It seemed to look
around the room, then settle its gaze

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on the bed. Jimmy began to
sweat as it approached and stared into his

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eyes. It was the oddest thing, staring into what should be eyes,

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but nothing was there. The flashes
of many lightning bolts formed shapes that looked

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almost human, but it was just
an outline. There was nothing inside what

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should be the body. He shoved
the shaking gun out from under the blanket

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and pointed it at the glowing figure. The figure noted the presence of the

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gun, then continued to advance.
Stop. Jimmy said, I I'm warning

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you. The figure ignored the warning. Jimmy squeezed the trigger, setting off

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a deafening shot that went right through
the face of the figure. It acted

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as though nothing had happened, continuing
to advance. The ringing in Jimmy's ears

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made all sounds seem muffled. The
figure stopped two inches from Jimmy's face.

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Mangler, it said, sounding less
like a voice and more like a transmission

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over an old staticky radio. I'm
I'm not the mangler. He said,

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the person who used to live here
was killed by him. It seemed to

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ponder this for a moment. Find
Mangler, it said, I I don't

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know where to find him. It
moved an inch closer as the flashes of

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electricity arked and licked hungrily at Jimmy's
face. Find him, Okay, okay,

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I'll find him, Jimmy said,
feeling the heat from the electricity.

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The figure seemed to consider that for
a moment, then backed away. It

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moved toward the bedroom wall. Then, like someone had turned on a vacuum,

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it was sucked into an electrical outlet
and disappeared. Jimmy laid back in,

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breathing hard. His eyes darted left
and right all around the room,

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but the only evidence of the figure
that had remained was the bullet hole in

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his bedroom wall. The trips through
the electrical conduits had become easier. There

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were still times when I came out
someplace I didn't intend to, but I

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was usually able to recover quickly and
get to where I wanted to go.

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But where did I want to go? At first? I wandered around,

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lost in this new form, I
found myself trapped inside. It was only

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after I had overheard a news report
about the serial killer they called the Mangler,

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that I gained my purpose. Of
course, Frederick was going to keep

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on killing. Of course they weren't
going to be able to catch him.

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He'd been inside away from his victims
before, and he didn't like it.

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Not being able to torture and kill
innocence was like a normal person not being

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able to breathe. Not that I
know much about being normal or breathing anymore.

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I suppose on some level I should
thank him. I thought about it

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for a long time, and the
only thing that makes any kind of sense

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is when we were fighting, somehow
the water and blood I was laying and

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got splashed into an electrical socket.
Instead of killing me, it bonded with

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me, making me able to become
the electrical current, to ride it like

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a wave to wherever I wanted.
I became faster than any person ever was,

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and yet I wasn't a person anymore. I have no idea how I

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retained my consciousness, let alone my
memory, but somehow I justify it by

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the old adage. I think,
therefore I am. My life has become

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an endless hunt for the person who
destroyed me the person I must destroy.

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I don't even know what I'll do
when I find him, but I will

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find him. I will stop him. This time. I won't fail.

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I'll end him like I should have
before. I owed it to the people

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he's tortured and killed since my failure. Most of all, I owe it

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to my wife. I know she
wouldn't approve of my bloodlust. She would

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say there must be some other option. But if she would be able to

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see her own dead body hanging naked
from our living room wall, I think

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she just might change her mind.
My thoughts are interrupted as I arrive at

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my next destination, another victim's house. I'm not sure what I'll find that

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the police haven't, but I have
to try. Maybe I can pick up

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his scent somehow, a plan almost
assuredly doomed to failure. Since I lost

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all sense of smell in the transformation. I'm surprised, though, that I

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can still see and hear. I
suppose waves of light and sound somehow intersect

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with my electrical body and it senses
them. I don't question it. I've

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learned to just go with it.
On the plus side, I don't have

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to worry about eating drinking or using
the bathroom. I guess there's an upside

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to everything. Elizabeth would be so
proud of me. I arrived at the

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room where the victim was murdered.
Looking around, there's still blood everywhere,

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along with evidence markers where they took
pictures. The sheer amount of blood tells

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me he took his time. He
desecrated this girl in her own room.

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Her parents must have been out,
because there's no way they didn't hear the

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struggle. There were books on the
floor, a chair overturned, and blood

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everywhere. The room was a disaster. It looked like she fought him.

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I wish she would have succeeded where
I had failed. But then I wish

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I hadn't failed and this girl was
still alive. There's nothing I can do

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now except find him and end him. Finding him was proving more difficult than

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I thought. I had unlimited access
to anywhere with electricity, but I couldn't

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use a computer or a GPS.
I was limited to transportation only through electricity.

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Granted, that still made me the
fastest being alive. I say being

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because I don't think I qualify as
a human any more. But I was

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limited to traveling to a place and
then trying to find out where I was

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and if he was there. If
he knew I was searching for him,

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all he would have to do is
live the rest of his days in a

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cabin in the woods with no electricity, and I'd never be able to reach

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him. I believe two things worked
in my favor with that theory. First,

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I don't think he's that smart,
and second, I don't think he

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knows I'm looking for him. I
believe that surviving our fight only further empowered

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him to kill. When someone feels
invincible, they're bound to make a mistake.

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An officer walked into the room,
and I ducked back into an outlet.

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I was able to hang on where
I was and watch from the inside

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of the outlet without being transported somewhere
else. The officer looked startled and stared

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at the empty air that I had
just vacated. She looked like she was

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unsure if she trusted what her eyes
had seen in the instant before I vanished.

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She slowly stepped over to the corner
and bent down to peer into the

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outlet. For a moment, I
wondered if she could see me and what

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exactly she would see, but then
her radio squawked, calling her to another

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scene. When I heard the voice
on the radio say the address and that

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they might have the killer cornered,
I didn't waste any time. It was

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maybe fifteen seconds until I was across
town at the address i'd heard. There

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was a lot of screaming and crying
going on. I came out of the

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outlet and saw blood on the floor
beside a body that wasn't moving. There

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was a girl being beaten by a
man with his back to me. He

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turned to take another swing, and
I knew my search was over. My

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therapist used to tell me I needed
to work on my impulse control, he

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said, calmly as he slapped her. I think I'm doing pretty good.

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I've been here ten whole minutes,
and you're still alive. I shot across

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the room and knocked him to the
floor. He jumped back and looked around

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for what had hit him. What
the hell? I saw the fear in

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his eyes when he saw me.
I know Elizabeth would have been ashamed of

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me, but I was enjoying his
anxiety. After all he had done to

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me and so many others. I
drank it in like an elixir. He

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started edging toward the door. I
was there in a heartbeat. His eyes

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darted back and forth where I used
to be and where I now stood.

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The panic in his eyes doubled.
I wanted to make him suffer, but

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I didn't want to make the same
mistake I'd made before and let him escape

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with his life. I lashed out
with a bolt that used to be my

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arm. The energy slashed through his
shirt and fried a hole in his shoulder.

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He screamed in pain and horror as
he looked at the smoking hole in

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his skin. He tried to run, but in an instant I was there

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in front of him, firing another
bolt and searing the skin across his waist

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to his jeans. His screams of
pain and rage were only matched by the

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feral desperation in his eyes. Not
knowing what to do, he went with

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the familiar attack the innocent. He
grabbed the girl who had been crawling away

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from the scene. He grabbed her
again and held her in front of him

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like a human shield. What a
waste of skin. I fired a bolt

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into a ceiling light beside me,
which ricocheted and hit him full force in

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the leg, nearly severing it.
He went down like a ton of bricks,

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trying to hold on to his hostage, but she was fighting to get

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away from it. She broke free, and he crumpled to the floor.

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What do you want, he screamed
at me, With everything that is within

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me. I wanted to tell him
who I was and what he had taken

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from me, and what I was
about to take from him. But I

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didn't want to give him the satisfaction. I wanted to give him only uncertainty

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and fear to cling to. I
could feel the seconds ticking away. I

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knew I had to make the most
of this opportunity, or he would get

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away again, and after this I
might never find him. I unleashed every

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ounce of energy at him. I
couldn't even see him. He was only

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a smoking pillar of frying skin.
Just then the police burst through the door.

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Free The first officer started, then
the shock of what he was seeing

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stole the rest of the word from
his mouth. He stood there, mouth

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agape. When the female officer stepped
in behind him. She looked at me,

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and her wide eyes narrowed as she
put two and two together and recognized

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me from the last crime scene.
I had no reason to fear. I

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didn't know if I could even be
harmed in my current state. But when

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you see that blue uniform burst through
a door with a gun aimed at you,

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all rational thought takes a vacation.
I dove for the outlet and was

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gone. I didn't even care where
I was going. I knew I had

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done what I wanted to. The
monster was destroyed. Something felt different.

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Was it pride at finishing my crusade? Was it shame knowing Elizabeth wouldn't have

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wanted me to do it? I
don't know, But there was something else.

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It was like there was added weight
to my existence. I guess you

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can have a conscience in whatever you'd
call this existence. I appeared in the

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place that made the most sense.
Ironically, it was my old home,

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the one where everything I loved died, including me. It was where I

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took on this unintended new existence.
Is that why I felt this extra weight?

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Was it some cathartic after effect of
my search for revenge that was finally

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over. I looked around the charred
debris of what used to be my home.

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In my mind's eye, I didn't
see the burned out shell of what

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was left. I saw it as
it was when we first moved in,

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when Elizabeth started decorating, when the
interior was finally finished, and I turned

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to her and said for now,
knowing she would decide to change everything at

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some time in the future when she
was bored, just like all women seemed

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to do. I remember getting a
paintbrush across the mouth for that comment.

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I smiled, remembering kissing her with
my freshly painted mouth and ending up in

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the bedroom. As I turned toward
where I'd entered the house, my smile

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quickly faded. For some reason,
I was still connected to the outlet that

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had never happened before. Another curiosity
arose when I noticed the color of my

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electrical body was now tinged purple.
It had always been blue before, the

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tale of what had yet to come
out of the outlet was red. As

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I pulled and it came the rest
of the way out, it merged with

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me and turned purple. What the
hell? I heard someone say. I

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whipped around, but no one was
there. Where am I? The voice

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said? Who are you? I
said to the air. There was a

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long silence. Doc, Doc,
the voice said, As far as I

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knew, it wasn't possible for my
spine to turn to ice since I no

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longer had a spine, but the
feeling seemed the same. Frederick, I

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said, what happened? He asked, This crazy electric thing attacked me.

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Now, now wait a minute,
how am I talking to you? You

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died months ago. My shock gave
way to utter despair. My enemy was

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now part of me. I've always
heard the expression those who seek revenge should

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dig two graves, but this is
a very interesting twist on it. And

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I want to say an extra special
thank you to author Michael Kelso for letting

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us read his story right here on
the show. And if you want to

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find out more about him, just
check out the link in the show notes.

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And I want to let you all
know this Friday, we have a

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very special show dropping on the feed. It's from my other podcast, Do

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You Even Movie? It's our review
of one of the most underrated wearwel films

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of all time, Bad Moon,
So make sure to check that out this

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Friday if you haven't checked out Do
You Even Movie? Before? This is

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a nice of when we cover horror
films and the like. Also worth mentioning,

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things are heating up over at Patreon
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we have another one planned very soon. But this one is all about a

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group of kids who go camping in
an abandoned campground and find that there's vengeance

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on the menu along with ticks and
Bugspray, and speaking of Patreon, I

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hundred and fifty weeks. I couldn't
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it's time for me to get out
of here and get back to work because

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we have so much more coming in
the weeks to follow. So for myself,

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for my producer Dan Wilder, our
executive producers Mark Shields and Rob Fields,

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and our composer Ray Mattis, I
will talk at you next time,

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So stay electric. Thank you for
listening weeks. Make sure to find your

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way back next week, but for
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