The documents seem to be multiplying; this is only because they have been separated from each other, from their bundle, and now cover a goodly portion of the floor, the table, the windowsills. Some documents are instead collections of color printouts of digital photos of some of the books and papers and wallplates found [...]
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November 13, 2007
A Perfect Counterpart: Chapter 5
Discoveries come quickly; page 55 was read, and soon understanding came; outside documents were consulted and names began to emerge from the fog, names unexpected, names not-to-be-repeated unless entirely certain that those were the names, that those names referenced the right people, that those names were not inserted later to distract, redirect, or mislead.
What was [...]
November 5, 2007
A Perfect Counterpart: Chapter 4
The knock came early; the knock brought back memories of the events of 1958, in New Mexico, in Burma, events recounted in Document #4, the document which fed the nightmares which had rampaged across the mind throughout the night. The knock came again, this time followed by a small voice, a female voice.— Hello? Is [...]
November 2, 2007
A Perfect Counterpart: Chapter 3
While the document was dangerous, filled with amazing revelations, and could change the course of world events, it was soporific, at best. Details, details, details. Unremitting lists of names, events, objects, places, foods. References and cross-references littered the pages, all 118 of them. The page to which the sheaf was opened [...]
November 1, 2007
A Perfect Counterpart: Chapter 2
The first document is found on yellowed paper, and clearly comes from a partially-malfunctioning typewriter, as “K” appears only every third time it ought; the first page of this stapled-together sheaf has the agency logo at the top, clearly from a commercial printer, with the bottom of the page holding three sets of initials: K.L.A., [...]
November 1, 2007
A Perfect Counterpart: Chapter 1
Documents everywhere; real documents, documents straight from the source; documents which, had they been forged, would have been far more unsettling even than they already were. Yet what to do with them? No reporter would believe them to be real, no publisher would allow them through their presses on the fear of lawsuits [...]
