Paranoid Schizophrenic

de Daniel Martinez

He heard his heart beat, once, and he heard the clock tick, once, and then he heard the humming of the electrical current in the whole room---lights, fixtures, the phone, the computer---and then the world moved again. "Wait a minute," he asked his colleague, "he touched you, and you saw things?""You've seen some pretty bad cases, Doc, and so have I---hell, we've worked a few together, even---but this guy, he isn't like any other. He isn't just your average nut." The words ripped out of his mind, James' head shot back into the tall hind of his red leather executive chair. "And then what?" was all he could force past his lips. "And then he went to sleep." Psychiatrist Dr. James Foray is bored. Both with his wife and his work. Until he meets his newest patient---a mysterious man with only three sheets of paper in his file. A patient who comes with a warning. Eddie.