Chapter v



Beside Himself





A clock radio sounded; 6 o'clock in the morning, Bill Foster woke up in a cold sweat. He could scarcely remember the night before, except intense pain. He got out of bed and went in the bathroom to relieve himself. After he'd done his business, he turned to leave, but slipped on the bathroom rug. He hit his nose hard on the sink.

"OWWW!!! Fuck!"

He grabbed some toilet paper to stop the bleeding. The wound, however, healed as quickly as he could get up on his feet. He threw the bloody tissue on the floor and turned to check his nose in the mirror. That's when he heard the sick churning noises behind him. He turned around, but there was nothing there; then someone touched him on his shoulder and he looked in the direction of where the hand came from and he saw... himself.

"Now that's funny, I don't remember having a mirror there."

He reached toward this double that was standing in front of him and was furthermore freaked when he fe...