Some Can See by J.R. Erickson

Author:J.R. Erickson [Erickson, J.R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: A Northern Michigan Asylum Novel
Published: 2018-11-26T16:00:00+00:00

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“How long does the LSD last?”

Sophia had been listening to the voices for hours, or perhaps lifetimes, time ceased to make sense. She had not opened her eyes and remained still, traveling the corridors of her mind as the drug carried her into dimensions of thought previously unexplored.

“Hours, anywhere from four to twenty-four, according to Dr. Fritz,” Kaiser said.

Sophia sensed them standing over her, the energies of their bodies rumbling like dark cold waves. She shivered, and a burst of colored light filled her eyes. The words twenty-four hours made her mouth dry and sticky and her mind panicky. She wanted to scream, open her mouth and scream and scream. The thought almost made her laugh, and she knew the laugh would be high and hysterical, signs of the mad person they believed she was.

“Do you think she’s unconscious?” the same man asked, but his voice sounded doubtful.

Kaiser pressed a finger on her cheek and used another to wrench open her eyelid.

Sophia allowed her eyes to roll up, not sure how else to simulate sleep. He released the tender flesh, and she forced her eyelids not to flutter.

“Or in some hallucination. I read about patients who spent their entire experiences in a kind of catatonia, but it was rare.”

“Was she speaking true things?” the doctor whispered.

“Yes,” Kaiser said, and Sophia heard pride in his voice. “She sees the dead. It’s miraculous, isn’t it?”

The other doctor was silent and Sophia had to focus to keep the thread of their conversation. Strange sights tried to pull her away, a giant fat snail sitting in the corner of her vision beckoned to her.

“Yes, but also dangerous… How could she know the names? It’s one thing to observe a telepathic patient or a seer, but a medium who receives the stories and names of the dead? I must admit, I hardly believed you when you wrote the group. I thought she must be pulling your chain and yet…”

“It’s real,” Kaiser whispered. His hands wandered to Sophia’s wrist, he stroked his thumb back and forth along her pulse as if ensuring himself that his prize pig was still alive. “The implications,” Kaiser continued, “can you imagine the power such a person could have in the world?”

“Except she’s not in the world because she’s insane. Who would ever believe her?”

“That’s why it is so important that she have our guidance. I’m less interested in offering her gift than in obtaining the information contained there-in. If we proved…”

Kaiser had not trailed off, but Sophia had slipped down a long shimmering hallway of blue light. It seemed to spin circles around her and she wanted to press her hands into the walls, but they had no substance. She walked and walked, her legs never tiring, her body as buoyant as the sparkling lights that danced in her vision. The tunnel ended into a bright white nothing, but there suspended in the center was a small table with two chairs. In one chair sat Jack.

Sophia wanted to collapse, but of their own will her legs carried her forward.

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