Mirrored Reflection (Short Story Version)
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Last published Tue, Feb 20, 2018
{UNEDITED} After a fatal, near-death experience, Nathan MacHane becomes trapped in a death-like coma. After suddenly and unexpectedly waking to an empty hospital room with no visitors, Nathan instantly begins to sense that something is different within him. He then finds out that a malevolent entity is harboring within his mind and his body and plans to reshape the world in his image.
But unbeknownst to Nathan, the entity began to tap into the latent abilities that have laid dormant in his genetic code for years. After the two abruptly become split, Nathan is forced with a choice to either save himself or the world from the carnage being released by the entity.
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