The Abyss Above Us 1 by Ryan Notch

Author:Ryan Notch [Notch, Ryan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Horror, Mystery; Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers & Suspense, Technothrillers, Thrillers
Amazon: B006OTGEX8
Published: 2011-12-20T23:00:00+00:00

Shaw spent the day thinking things through. The trouble was that despite his best efforts to believe things had happened like the psychiatrists had told him, his memories of the events hadn’t really changed. He could tell himself it had never happened, and as long as it never happened again he might even be able to learn to live with it. But you could only learn to live with it if you were sure, one way or the other. He had to be sure.

On the one hand he didn’t feel crazy, but on the other hand what he had seen was impossible. Mycotoxin was the only answer. The mold in the room had driven him and everyone else insane. But was it only temporary, had he now recovered. Could he leave? Would they ever let him leave? Certainly no one had in the time he’d been here, but it was only a few months. There was another question he had too, one that he asked in therapy later that day.

“Doctor, why is it you think I killed Brock? If everyone else committed suicide?”

“You were covered in his blood when the police got there. You attacked them, and were in a very violent state when you were brought in. Don’t you remember your days in solitary?”

“Not much. But still, if everyone else killed themselves, doesn’t it make more sense that Brock did too,” asked Shaw.

“But then why were you covered in his blood? And not everyone killed themselves, many were killed by others.”

“But voluntarily, right? I remember before things all fell apart some people had voluntarily allowed themselves to be killed. That’s a form of suicide right?”

“Shaw, this is just a manifestation of your guilt. It’s avoidance, trying to change the past to escape your crime.”

“Have I ever even been allowed to see a lawyer? I definitely don’t remember one.”

“The legal process can’t take place unless the accused is mentally fit to stand trial,” said the doctor.

Shaw could see what was going on. In any troubleshooting environment, the person trying to diagnose the situation will eventually gravitate towards the scenario that happens the most often, making the details of every situation fit the assumptions. Programmers assumed the user was doing something wrong, police assumed everyone was lying, and psychiatrists assumed everyone was crazy. Breaking someone out of their area of assumption and experience took a tremendous amount of effort and evidence. Shaw was going to be in here until he convinced them he was no longer insane. And the worst way to do that was to tell them he was no longer insane.

And besides, he wasn’t even sure that was true.

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