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Author: Jay Martel
maybe I’d left it in my car.’ She took it from Perry. ‘Thank you, Mr Bunt. I hope it wasn’t too much trouble.’
    As she took the jacket, Perry again noticed the small blue tattoo on the inside of her left wrist. His mind reeled with all the things he wanted to say to her but finally settled for a lame, mumbled, ‘No problemo’. Then, before he could follow it up, Amanda was moving again, towards the metal door across the room. She pushed an ID card against a scanner, opened the door, waved back at him and disappeared inside.
    Do something , Perry thought. This was it, the moment in the movies when the guy does something dramatic. So Perry did something dramatic. Suddenly possessed with an Olympian speed not accessed since a youthful experimentation with shoplifting, he sprinted towards the closing door. The receptionist jumped up from his desk and shouted something at him, but Perry was already catching the door just before it closed. Without hesitation, he swung it back open and plunged into a long, dimly lit hallway. He vaguely heard footsteps and shouting behind him, but he had Amanda in his sights and wasn’t going to stop now. Breathless, he was suddenly next to her.
    ‘Amanda,’ he said, ‘I wanted to ask if you—’
    He didn’t finish his sentence because he became aware that he was standing in the strangest place he had ever seen: A huge, dark, cathedral-like space lined with what looked like TV monitors – brightly lit squares dotting the walls as far as he could see until they became nothing more than pinpoints of blue light. Flitting between the monitors, like bees from flower to flower, were red-uniformed men and women in flying armchairs. In the midst of all this was a giant round console festooned with lit-up words and images. On an illuminated image of the Earth glowed the words:
    B IZARRE
    L UDICROUS
    U NBELIEVABLE AND ALWAYS
    E NTERTAINING
    As Perry’s eyes grew accustomed to the dark, he saw what appeared to be a large moving tree in the centre of the console. As he focused in on it, he saw that he was wrong. It was, in fact, a giant green slug-like creature covered with eyeballs the size of ping-pong balls, all of which were beginning, one after another, to ogle him. A great gap-toothed slit below the eyeballs trembled and opened.
    ‘We have a visitor in the central control room,’ it groaned.
    Perry stood frozen, his mouth agape.
    Amanda smiled apologetically. ‘Non-employees aren’t really allowed in here,’ she said. ‘Sorry, Mr Bunt.’
    Two uniformed security guards, one short and squat, the other tall and muscular with a moustache, appeared out of the darkness. Before Perry had a chance to react, the tall guard grabbed his arms and pulled them behind his back. The clean-cut receptionist appeared in front of them, panting.
    ‘I tried to stop him—’ he said, the rest of his words lost in gasps for air.
    Perry struggled, but the tall guard’s grip felt like iron manacles on his forearms.
    ‘Just relax. OK, friend?’ the short guard said. ‘Everything’s going to be fine.’
    The tall guard’s head swivelled to his colleague. ‘You got your eraser?’
    The short guard nodded, took a large brass ring from his belt and slid it halfway down Perry’s head to just above his eyes.
    Perry, sweating profusely, glanced at Amanda, who still seemed, under the circumstances, ludicrously calm.
    ‘Don’t worry, Mr Bunt,’ she said, ‘They’re just going to do something to your brain.’ He didn’t have much time to panic before everything disappeared.

CHANNEL 5
    LEFT HANGING
    Perry Bunt opened his eyes. He was sitting in the reception area of the Galaxy Entertainment building. Dennis Perkins, the clean-cut receptionist, stood over him, snapping his fingers in front of his eyes.
    ‘Hey! Mister! Hey there! Are you OK?’
    Perry surveyed the room, confused. It took him a moment before he remembered the strange chain of events that led to his loss of consciousness. Meanwhile,
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