Trapped

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From the author: This ebook is actually two ebooks. I wrote TRAPPED twice. The final version is the one I prefer, and it is presented first. But I’ve gotten a lot of email from fans who wanted to read the original, uncut first draft, so I’ve included it as an extra after the Afterword. The Afterword explains why there are two versions of this book in the first place…

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

— Mark Twain

It’s lonely here, there’s no one left to torture.

— Leonard Cohen

What’s he building in there?

— Tom Waits

PROLOGUE

He couldn’t move.

The table he lay on was cold against his naked back. There were no ropes binding his arms, no belts securing his legs. But he was immobile, paralyzed.

Yet he was still able to feel.

Panicked thoughts swirled through his brain. Where am I? Was I in an accident? I can’t open my eyes. Am I blind? Am I dead? I can still think, so I must be alive. But I can’t move. Can’t talk. What’s happening to me?

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