The Beast of 1977 (Book 1)

Chapter 35

"They both will fall to the ground. People will wail in agony at the feet of their god...but they will not find mercy."

Isaac's grainy, wicked sounding voice droned on over Doctor Sanyupta's tape recorder.

"I see, Isaac. And can you tell me when these buildings will fall? Do you have a specific date? A month, time or even a year," Sanyupta asked with a thoughtful composure in his tone.

"Od ton kcom em, hctiw rotcod." (Do not mock me, witch doctor) Isaac hissed.

"I assure you, Isaac, I am not mocking you. I am simply curious to know just when this harrowing event will occur, so I can warn others, that is."

"Your time in this world is drawing to a close, mystic. Ruoy niart lliw eb ruoy tsal etaf. Deeh ym ylluferac." (Your train will be your last fate. Heed my words carefully)

"I will do my best to be very careful, my friend." Sanyupta compassionately assured. "On that note, let us conclude our session for the day. After lunch, you can go downstairs and help set up the Christmas decorations with the others."

Doctor Levin pressed the off button on the tape recorder before wiping his teary eyes dry. He wished that he had known about the recordings earlier, but like most of his so called "safe patients", he chose to shove Isaac off to the side, waiting to see if he would relapse back into his schizophrenic state once again.

Just one week earlier Isaac seemed perfectly well. From Jeremiah's point of view there were no apparent or visible signs that would have suggested the man required more time at Ashlandview.

But there was Jeremiah Levin, slumped over at his desk while the Thursday edition of the Cypress Guardian that was lying in front of him kept begging for the young doctor to take yet another glance down at Isaac Mercer's grinning black and white photo.

There was an overwhelming sentiment of shame that he was sinking in. Jeremiah felt like a failure not being able to fully diagnose Isaac's problem. There was that persistent pinching in the back of the man's throat that wanted to believe Isaac's despairing shape-shifting story, to a certain degree that is.

All alone in his office, Jeremiah sat and stared endlessly from the newspaper to his multiple degrees on the wall that in times past he cherished and fawned over so proudly. He has listened to the chilling taped sessions at least five times in the past hour, and not one of his precious diplomas had prepared him for any of what he had listened to in Sanyupta's meetings with Isaac.

A series of knocks at the door interrupted Jeremiah's penitent moment to himself. Discreetly and quickly, the man wiped his eyes with a Kleenex before shouting, "Come in!"

From behind the door appeared a young, bearded, well dressed white man. With a cordial smile wrapped around his face, the man strolled inside and announced, "It's almost noon, Jeri. How about some lunch? My treat."

Clearing his throat, Jeremiah swiped the newspaper from off his desk before slipping it inside one of the drawers.

"Sure, Paul, I need to get out of here for a while

this most of the time. You let it get to you now you'll

instant to look up at his colleague with a

had die since you've

had embarrassed him. All Jeremiah could do

"C'mon, how

if you're worried about what you're parents are gonna say, then don't be. Paul shrugged. "You've got a helluva career still ahead of you. This is only a

of his seat, grabbed his coat from off the coat rack

the door!" Paul shouted, following Jeremiah down the

unrelenting sense of being closed in suddenly seized him. Even though he wasn't even remotely hungry, the very thought

Sanyupta is heading off to Calcutta

Sighing, Jeremiah replied, "Yeah, that's one

"Can you imagine how long of a train ride that is from Bombay all the way to Calcutta?" Paul grinned before

in suit. The man stuffed his hands into his coat pockets, looked up at the ceiling, and at the blink

layered road at speeds that barely reached 15 mph. Behind her were the sounds of angry cars and trucks honking

ahead, Karyn began to press harder on the gas until both she and her car were right under the bridge's steel girders. To the side was a large enough walkway

sat in her cold vehicle, sulking and feeling sorry for herself. Everything she did, from knowingly sleeping with an attached man, to handing down her curse only gripped her body with the

She muttered with a trembling bottom lip. "Mama...I wanna

Without allowing one more thought to enter into her head, Karyn began to slip off her clothes. From her hat, scarf, coat, sweater, pants and boots, all the way down to her underwear, every item went flying to and fro inside the car until she was completely naked. Before long, the woman found herself crying. She was crying so hard that the tears were blinding her. Karyn then found herself looking up into the rearview mirror only to see that her eyes had turned

honked their horns and careened their vehicles from one side of the road to the other, gawking amazingly at the woman that was

Karyn could feel the fur begin to stalk out of her skin; that alone caused her pace to

her change, but that jarring notion didn't seem to weigh heavily upon the fraught woman as she

fall right off of her feet at any moment. With every passing horn, Karyn found her shaking body nearing closer to the second and final ledge. Within the part of her brain that still held a remnant

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