June 1970, in an old abandoned hospital
Sandra Berrier was getting worse. Her father toiled day and night, going without sleep for days; he had to find a cure quick.
Trial after trial and no success; just when he was about to give up, he noticed a certain quietness in the lab. All the test subjects were sleeping peacefully. The drug worked!
When they awoke, the subjects were alert and responsive…and pain free.
He injected his daughter with the serum. She responded quickly. “Daddy, I’m better!”
Running to his daughter’s open arms, what he saw next drove him over the edge.
This story is my entry into this week’s Friday Fictioneers. click the link to discover more stories based on the photo prompt. For the rest of the Night Terrors series, click this link: NIGHT TERRORS
Good piece.
“He seen”?
thanks for the catch…wrote this at 6:30 am, too sleepy to check grammar. thanks for reading
You are most welcome: I enjoyed it.
Night terror indeed. That was a very neat build up to a devastating last line. Bravo.
A “Flowers For Algernon” situation? Shudder.
Great build up and great last line. What did he see that drove him over the edge?
Oh! The suspense is killing. What did he see? Very well done!
stay tuned to next week’s Friday Fictioneers
Oh, the suspense. You lull us into that sense of well-being and then there’s the twist. Is this a memory of Jonathan? Well done!
Good build up to a very suspense filled final twist, well done.
Intriguing!
This is a page turner. I wouldn’t be able to put the book down. I’d want to know what happened.
Great write full of questions ….
Isadora 😎