Silverwood Asylum had been abandoned for at least ten years. The police shut it down when they discovered that the doctors performed unruly experiments on the patients. When Silverwood first opened, they only admitted the worst of the worst, once a man who had murdered each of his seven wives.
“Will you take the case?” Sheriff Crane asked. I shook my head as if to regain consciousness after being drawn into thought. “Zaroff?!” he exclaimed, beginning to become frustrated. His silver hair glistened along with …show more content…
I turned the corner and there they were, just as he said they'd be. I took slow, measured footsteps over to my desk and opened the folder. The top sheet of paper stated where the fires were located and when they happened. All of the fires had been put out, of course, but it seemed as if there was a pattern. I just had to figure it out.
I stepped outside into the humid air. The sun had just hit the midpoint in the sky as I opened the door to my 1967 Chevy Impala and sat in the seat. Turning my key, the car hummed as if it had just come out of the shop. I pulled out of the parking lot and began my way to this case that seemed almost unimportant. The Silverwood Asylum sat back off an unnamed dirt road. I passed a rotting wood sign with dull gray letters. Some of them had fallen off, but you could still see the outlines of the letters in the rotting wood.
As I pulled up to the chain fence, I noticed the sign saying “Danger! Electric shock fence!” Of course the fence wasn't operating anymore, so I stepped out of my car and paused. The reflection of the massive building easily seen in the sheer black hood of my car. I pushed the iron gate open to allow my car to pass through. Approaching the asylum, I could begin to see the many fissures covering the exterior walls. The building seemed to become larger as I inched