That Which Should Not Be by Brett J. Talley

Author:Brett J. Talley
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi
Tags: Horror, Fiction
ISBN: 9781936564149
Publisher: JournalStone
Published: 2011-10-07T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter

22

The next few weeks came and went in a blur. It was chaos, a rush of new names and people, of learning my role in the asylum and the nature of the patients within it. Late fall gave way to winter. The snows came early, as they often do in New England, though not in such quantity that we were isolated. Not yet, at least.

Dr. Winthrop turned out to be right; I did find a project, a patient whose particular neurosis fascinated me. It was Dr. Winthrop himself who brought him to my attention.

“I’ve someone I want you to talk to,” he said, taking me aside after breakfast one day. “His name is Robert.”

“Robert what?” I asked.

“Well, we don’t really know. He's been in the care of the state for virtually all his life. He was left on our doorstep ten years ago.”

“Left here? You mean he is a child?”

“Well, he’s probably fifteen now.”

Winthrop nodded, and for a moment I looked away. I had never dealt with a child before, and I wasn’t sure I was ready.

“Anyway,” he continued, “he’s been with us for several years, and he’s always been a model patient. Quiet, keeps to himself. Completely insane, of course. Lives in a world of his own creation. But, nonetheless, never a problem. Lately, however, he’s gone into a sort of mania. He won’t eat. He barely sleeps. The orderlies find him staring into the corner

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