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    Mindfreaks
    Mindfreaks
    Mindfreaks
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    Mindfreaks

    By Lex Williams

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

    The scars of the Mindwar run deep among veterans, resulting in myriad crippling mental illnesses and a need for constant care. But not even interstellar travel can change the fundamental fear of the unknown and the shunning of these veterans. No amount of technological progress will prevent the government from letting them slip through the gaps. They gave their lives and their minds for a world that wants nothing to do with a bunch of Mindfreaks.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLex Williams
    Release dateFeb 2, 2019
    ISBN9780463148013
    Mindfreaks
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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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      Mindfreaks - Lex Williams

      Mindfreaks

      Lex Williams

      Distributed by Smashwords

      Copyright 2019 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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      Table of Contents

      1: Veteran's Hospital

      2: Delays

      3: Cuts

      4: Tension

      5: Bruises

      6: Letting Go

      7: Boiling Point

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      1: Veteran's Hospital

      When humanity developed the technology to travel the stars, it wasn't as fiction had often imagined; it was a rather mundane process and there weren't other groundbreaking technologies that came along with it. Matter replicators, universal translators and the like were just as fictional as they were before interstellar travel.

      However, what humanity did find was a creature living inside a star in the Andromeda galaxy. It was incubating within the ball of plasma and flame. It was even conscious, and it communicated with them.

      For a time, they communicated knowledge back and forth. The result was a series of programs exploring what is described as the mental plane. A dimension perpendicular to time whose presence is tied to the existence of particles and antiparticles.

      And then, for reasons unknown to humanity, it attacked. It struck from the mental plane. The people it attacked became delirious, then suffered from a host of mental illnesses as their brains broke down.

      Soldiers were trained in psychic warfare, standing as human shields against the coming storm. The attack made its way across the universe, destroying and devouring minds. The scars made on the victims are still present in the mental plane to this very day.

      The psychic soldiers found a weakness, however. The god-like creature knew nothing of imagination, only of perceptive truth. And so the soldiers played mental games, shifting their emotional states and thoughts rapidly and confusing the creature until they had an opportunity to attack.

      Across the mental plane, which they described as nature's Internet, they chased the creature back into a star. They trapped it there and, under constant assault, its retaliations grew more and more desperate, until it finally unleashed enough energy in one last, desperate attack that the sun around it went supernova, destroying the creature inside.

      Of those who had been attacked, almost all of the survivors were veterans. The civilians never stood a chance. But surviving still had a price; the victims presented a range of problems, almost as many different kinds as there were survivors. They ran the whole gamut, from light symptoms of schizophrenia, to complete and total loss of higher mental function.

      Autopsies of the dead found that degeneration of the brain was associated with psychic attacks, albeit without much for an explanation of how. It has been theorised that such attacks create antiparticles

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