The Slanted Worlds (2014)
“Ref2238198/453 Subject: SYMMES, Alicia An anonymous phone call was received by a local station on Weds 6th June 1940 suggesting subject involved in alleged spy ring.
Status: ONGOING Priority: A1 Assigned Officer: Michael Allenby He stood up and still he held my arm.
It was quite terrifying.
And yet after a second I sensed that he would not come through, perhaps could not enter my room.
His grip was cold and painful. I said, “I insist you release me, sir.”
He smiled. He let m...e go, and to my relief, stepped back. He said, “You know, you remind me so much of your father, Alicia. A man full of grand ideas of himself, a naively inquisitive man. He pried into the secrets of time and the universe and thought them no more than parlor tricks. You are very like him.”
A sound like a murmured objection came from somewhere behind him.
“I never knew my father.MoreLess
Status: ONGOING Priority: A1 Assigned Officer: Michael Allenby He stood up and still he held my arm.
It was quite terrifying.
And yet after a second I sensed that he would not come through, perhaps could not enter my room.
His grip was cold and painful. I said, “I insist you release me, sir.”
He smiled. He let m...e go, and to my relief, stepped back. He said, “You know, you remind me so much of your father, Alicia. A man full of grand ideas of himself, a naively inquisitive man. He pried into the secrets of time and the universe and thought them no more than parlor tricks. You are very like him.”
A sound like a murmured objection came from somewhere behind him.
“I never knew my father.MoreLess
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