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The Third Corridor
by Angel Lynn
New Concepts Publishing
www.newconceptspublishing.com
Copyright ©2004 by Angela Bishop
First published by New Concepts Publishing, April
2004
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The Third Corridor
by Angel Lynn
THE THIRD CORRIDOR
By
Angel Lynn
© copyright April 2004, Angela Bishop
Cover art by Eliza Black, © copyright April 2004
New Concepts Publishing
5202 Humphreys Rd.
Lake Park, GA 31636
www.newconceptspublishing.com
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The Third Corridor
by Angel Lynn
Prelude
~ Play Possum ~
"...to pretend to be asleep,
dead, or unaware..."
—Webster's New World Dictionary, Third Edition
“What's happening?” Garret pulled the reciprocator from
his head, dropping it to the floor as he rose quickly from the
cot. The standby medical team immediately began their
protocol examination, drawing fluids, checking for physical
changes, and a barrage of questions to determine his mental
status.
“What's your name? Where are you? How many fingers...”
Garret pushed them aside, and approached the habiliment,
a large computer panel displaying rapidly changing numerical
readouts. Just above a keyboard, a
Kineto-Neural Optic
Emission,
or
KNOE
scanner, displayed a variegated, three-
dimensional brain image surrounded by a near translucent
skull.
Melissa turned her head to acknowledge Garret, allowing
her eyes to momentarily leave the
KNOE.
“Your adrenaline
levels were elevating and your heart rate was almost to a
hundred and ninety. Your vitals were at critical levels. I had
to reanimate you.”
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by Angel Lynn
Garret bent over the console. He scanned the screen in
front of him.
Melissa glanced upward again. “You're bleeding.”
Garret touched his forehead and looked at the blood on his
fingers. “What happened? Did I hit my head?”
“You tell me. That wound formed just before I disengaged
the signal.” Melissa was calm and professional, her eyes
scrutinizing the monitor, and her fingers rapidly tapping at
the keypad.
“How badly is she injured?”
“She has a mild concussion.” Melissa pointed at the screen,
which now presented a cross sectioned scan of a brain. A
series of numbers was registering at the lateral sides of the
KNOE.
Melissa traced her finger along the brain composite,
stopping at the frontal lobe. “These readings are puzzling,
though. Her serotonin levels are elevated and steady, but
only briefly did they correlate with the same desynchronized
beta waves you were projecting during rapid eye movements.
However, I am now receiving high frequency beta waves from
the frontal and parietal lobes.”
“A neuropathy perhaps?”
“No, all neuronal transmissions are functioning normally,
but she seems to be creating memories we typically find
during alert wakefulness.” Melissa stopped tapping the
keyboard to look at Garret. “It's as though she's in an altered
state of awareness, the same readouts the scientists recorded
when conducting this experiment before.”
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