Chapter 4 of EDEN CAN WAIT has been posted

Chapter 4: Dead Ringer  of  EDEN CAN WAIT  has been posted online.


A plastic surgery?


I stopped reading and looked up. They must have been used to seeing the flabbergasted expression that line was putting on the candidates’ faces, and were expecting it.


"Please read everything," said the woman, almost gently.


I caught an attentive gaze of the man on the left and returned to reading, expecting to see some explanation and secretly hoping that the contract itself was some kind of a test.


I was wrong. Instead of clarifying things, the last page of the document was offering a brief heavily worded list of rules and prohibited acts. I was not to engage in any communications with the outside world. I was to follow all directives. I was to report any illness immediately. I was not to break out of my character under any circumstances …


I looked up again and met three pairs of peering eyes.


“Do you have any questions?” asked the bearded man.


I cleared my throat. Asking him which one of us was insane was certainly tempting, but hardly prudent.


“Well,” I said, after drawing blank for a moment. “Could you please tell me what this is all about?”



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