The Girl and the Pendulum (An Original Story – Part 1)
Part One: Prologue
“Where the hell are you?” Cattrell whispers in a heavy breath that clouds the side window of the dark blue Chrysler sedan.
He wipes the sleeve of his wool trenchcoat along the glass, erasing the moisturized evidence of his spoken words.
Cattrell exits the vehicle and stands near a three-story brick building that formerly housed a piano store. He peers across the street at the pink front door of a storefront with peeling burgundy paint, and retrieves his 35mm camera from his coat. Using the telephoto lens, he zooms in for a closer look, peering through the front glass window.
A red suitcase. A brass tuba. An antique tiffany lamp. And at the base of the lamp, a small sign reading “CLOSED”.
Cattrell snaps a photo. Click. Rrrr.
Daylight falters.
He looks down at the logo printed on top of the camera lens. The Zenith Company …
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Part Two
"The Girl and the Pendulum" is an 18-part future-noir science fiction story about a a private investigator's search for a missing android. How can a man who searches for missing women find lost artificial intelligence? I welcome feedback on this story about a man and his difficult case in a post-war, post collapse world. Stay tuned, as I also will begin publishing my 300,000 word epic novel "The Messiah" on Steemit in 2017.
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