Chapters tagged deception

by TerraKhanus

Chapter 1

The Luckiest Man Alive ---------------------- The server room found him first every morning, the way it always did, the cold hush of it settling over Wallace before the rest of the thirty-first floor had so much as flickered awake. At 7:43 he was already at his workstation, tuck...

by TerraKhanus

Chapter 4

By eleven fifteen, the cable was a prop. Derek Voss held it aloft like a prosecutor with evidence the jury would find damning regardless of what it proved. It was gray, standard Cat6, a foot and a half dangling from his fist, the connector swinging like something hanged. Wallace...

by TerraKhanus

Chapter 5

The coffee maker sat exactly where it always sat, on the left counter beside the toaster, its reservoir half full from whoever had filled it last, and Wallace stood in front of it in his boxers and yesterday’s Tetris shirt, glasses still faintly smudged from sleep, waiting for th...

by TerraKhanus

Chapter 6

Wallace’s key found the lock without thought, muscle memory carrying him through the last motion of an ordinary Tuesday, and it was the light that stopped him first, before anything else registered. The overhead fixture in the kitchen, the one they never used, harsh and white and...