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The Underwood

Michael Sapir is a writer searching for the proper tool. When he runs across an old Underwood Noiseless Portable offered up for sale, he thinks he’s found it, but when his stories start turning up later as murders on the evening news, he’s no longer sure what he’s found.

The old machine has a history of which he is unaware, last used by a correspondent in the closing days of World War Two, killed in France near the Collegial Ste. Laurent, the resting place of the prophet, Michel de Nostredame. In time, however, Michael begins to wonder who is doing the writing – is it he or the machine? And when he finally writes the death of his roommate – killed later in an accident nearby – Michael begins to wonder if he is prophet or creator; is he merely foretelling events, or creating them?

Finally, he decides the Underwood must be destroyed, not realizing there is one more story he has to finish first.

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