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    This Pluperfect Life
    This Pluperfect Life
    This Pluperfect Life
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    This Pluperfect Life

    By Lex Williams

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    WARNING: Contains high impact horror and mature themes. Discretion is advised.

    The monolithic machine hummed in the centre of the dirty workshop. This was everything Ippolit had worked for, everything he'd sacrificed had come to this point. There was no turning back.

    In one sense of the phrase.

    A knocking came from inside the machine, followed by a bang.

    Ippolit stepped back, his hand clasping around a welding rod. This was something hadn't foreseen. He hadn't even tested yet. Had he?

    The door to the machine opened. Thick smoke drifted out, curling upwards.

    A silhouette stepped through the smoke ...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLex Williams
    Release dateFeb 19, 2017
    ISBN9781370354061
    This Pluperfect Life
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    Lex Williams

    Lex Williams is a novelettist ( although occasionally writing novellas with the rare novel ) whose intent is to take advantage of self-publishing stories to provide interesting, different and weird ideas that you won't find in traditionally published stories. Williams typically writes for the horror genre ( usually dipping into the surreal variety ), but has explored other areas, such as ( non erotic ) romance and science fiction.

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      This Pluperfect Life - Lex Williams

      This Pluperfect Life

      Lex Williams

      Distributed by Smashwords

      Copyright 2017 Lex Williams

      Thanks to my editor, Lee Cope, who I found through writerfind.com.

      Thanks to my cover artist, Pius Pranoto, who I found at deviantart.com under the username, telaga.

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      Harsh white light highlighted the dishevelled man hunched over his desk, surrounded by tools and detritus. He swept steel off-cuttings to the floor and planted the lamp next to him. He hissed and pulled his hand back from the lamp's hot steel cover.

      Grimacing, he swept a glove off the ground and used it to angle the light. He hurled it behind him and returned to work.

      Lengths of copper wire lay on his desk. He grabbed pliers to cut them into various lengths. He shifted and caught his thumb between the pliers.

      Fuck!

      The pliers slammed against the wall, making the framed piece of paper rock side-to-side. The man stared, watching the framed paper swing back and forth. He rose to his feet and trod toward it.

      He lifted it off the wall, staring. There was his name. Ippolit. Doctorate of Philosophy in Engineering. His eyes glazed over.

      Ippolit pressed the framed paper against his chest, still unfocused. His gaze dropped to the pliers. He crouched over and picked it up, facing the frame away from him and placing it against the wall. He turned and stopped, staring at the machine in the centre of the room. It stood tall like an ancient monolith, the harsh shadows obscuring the little wires running down it.

      His gaze never wavered as he walked back to his desk. He took a deep breath and broke his stare from the machine to pull on gloves and an apron. He elbowed the chair out of the way, leaning over his desk.

      He twisted wires into half-circles and lay them on top of each other to make a mesh of a sphere. Each one was caressed into its shape, given form by learned hands.

      A flame ignited. He flicked the welding helmet in front of his face. He stooped over the desk as he brought the torch and the welding rod closer. His silhouette flashed on the wall. It looked like he was committing torture.

      The flame disappeared with a click. He pulled off his helmet and dropped it. He lumbered toward the fridge in the corner. It greeted him with cold, bitter air.

      Ippolit grabbed an apple and closed the fridge. He walked back to his desk and placed the apple within the sphere, locking it into place with copper hooks. The fruit sat inside its copper prison on the table.

      He rubbed his forehead as he walked over to the computer. His fingers danced across the keyboard. The numbers were right. The machine was ready. There was only one thing left to do.

      He picked up the caged apple and held it up to the light. The links in-between the copper wires seemed solid enough. To think, the Faraday cage would be the only thing stopping this apple from being

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