The Knowing: A thrilling horror fantasy by David Graham

Author:David Graham [Graham, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781911331919
Publisher: Urbane Publications
Published: 2017-03-29T18:30:00+00:00

Dai came to with Green Park greenery in his mouth and a tenacious tendril worming its way up a nostril. His outstretched fingertips were resting on a blanket of grass that was cool and comforting. Whoa! Haven’t I experienced this before? He turned over and pushed himself up into a sitting position. The sky looked exactly the same. The lights in Buckingham Palace still shone just as brightly. He checked his watch: 7:00 p.m. That’s weird. Had time stopped while I was being tortured at the hands of some fucking sadist? Oh, get real Dai! You’re not in a movie now! Okay, so there were two other options to consider: a) that he’d imagined the whole thing and had just had a micro-nap; or b) that he’d been up-up-and-awayed into the lab of a passing spaceship and returned in the twinkling of an alien’s lizard-like eye. He explored his teeth with his tongue for tell-tale holes where transmitters might have been implanted: nope, nothing. He examined his wrists and ankles for signs of physical restraint: nope, no marks or stickiness. Could something have been put inside him? That would need an X-ray. So, could I use the hocus focus on myself ? For Chrissakes, Dai, get a grip! A ping let loose in his brain would bounce around in an infinite feedback loop and cause him to start speaking Welsh. And liking rugby.

Suddenly, the sky seemed to explode with light. There was a feeling of burning heat on his face and a loud whoosh-whooshing noise slammed at his eardrums. Oh Christ, they’re back to finish me off! There was only one thing for it: he’d use the hocus focus to ping their neural network just like Jeff Goldblum did when he uploaded a computer virus in Independence Day. It could go horribly wrong, and he might end up with his head chopped off by a laser, but, hell, he was a knight of the realm and he might as well go out with a bang. That’d teach those who still thought he was a brainless boyo from the Valleys.

So, Dai stood up, raised his hands in the air, and focussed out ... clearing his mind ... whoosh-whoosh went the noise ... imagining a funnel ... it was hard to concentrate ... zeroing in with a precisely delivered ping right in the centre of the alien computer constructed from human brain tissue ... whoosh-whoosh-whoosh ... and now there are figures coming for him ... they’re skeletally thin, holding out pincer-grip appendages to crush the last ounce of his life force ...

“It’s okay, sir, you’re safe now,” a male voice shouted. It was hard to make out the words against all the noise, but it was definitely English. Aliens were so fucking devious. They’d obviously learnt the language from YouTube broadcasts.

“Cut the searchlight,” another voice yelled. “You’re blinding the man.”

Green Park suddenly looked like Green Park again. Buckingham Palace hadn’t moved an inch and its windows were burning with light as usual. Her Majesty obviously wasn’t on dimmer duty tonight, Dai thought.

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