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Madhouse Fog
Sean Carswell
Manic D Press San Francisco
This is a work of fiction. All characters and locations appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, and places is purely coincidental.
Cover photo by Nino Andonis
Madhouse Fog ©2013 by Sean Carswell. All rights reserved.
Published by Manic D Press. For information, contact Manic D Press,
| PO Box 410804, San Francisco CA 94141 | www.manicdpress.com |
| ISBN 978-1-933149-75-2 (print) | printed in the USA |
| ISBN 978-1-933149-76-9 (ebook) |
Cataloging in Publication data is available from the Library of Congress
for
Wendy Bishop, Sheila Ortiz Taylor,
and
Jerome Stern
Contents
1
I’d been hearing a voice in my head lately. Not voices. One voice, and I didn’t want to listen. It still somehow convinced me to take a job at the Oak View State Psychiatric Hospital.
The first thing I did on arrival at Oak View was to take a seat in the back row of a large lecture hall. All of the hospital administrators and a good chunk of staff were having the beginning-of-the-year meeting there. I sat between two empty chairs and scanned the hall for Dr. Bishop.
Despite
