Phoenix is self-harming, suicidal and sectioned. She has visions, in which Sherlock Holmes tells her she can be a great detective. Hers is a story of murder, detection, and hope, in a seemingly hopeless world. When else has a group of people, considered the dregs of society, become superheroes? This is the first chapter of the, as yet, unpublished Up Lit cozie crime novel 'Phoenix: The Delusional Detective.'
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The Caged Animal Roars
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You feel disconnected from yourself. Sitting in the office one day, it strikes you that these days there are three levels of separation between you, and the world. You live mostly inside a computer, which is inside the room, which is inside the office (or, in the morning and evenings, the house).
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