Escape From Room 101
By SoulFire77
ESCAPE FROM ROOM 101
Everyone knows the number.
No one speaks it.
In the world of Big Brother, some doors open only once. What waits behind them is the worst thing imaginable—tailored, personal, final. Those who enter are unmade. Those who emerge are no longer themselves.
Arthur Holt knows this. He has always known.
But knowing has never saved anyone.
A novel set in the world of George Orwell's 1984
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01 - The Two Minutes (1)
PART ONE: BEFORE Chapter 1: The Two Minutes The telescreen gave no warning. It never did. Arthur Holt was at his speakwrite in the Records Department...
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01 - The Two Minutes (2)
Chapter 1: The Two Minutes (Cont.) Victory Mansions was seven flights of stairs with a lift that had not worked in anyone's memory. The sign on the...
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02 - The Speakwrite (1)
Chapter 2: The Speakwrite The speed regulator dial had been loose for three months. Arthur had learned to work around it---a gentle pressure with his...
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02 - The Speakwrite (2)
Chapter 2: The Speakwrite (Cont.) The next day, Tillotson's desk was empty. Arthur noticed it when he arrived at the Records Department---the cubicle...
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03 - Peter Harmon (1)
Chapter 3: Peter Harmon Peter Harmon worked in the Historical Archives section, three floors below the Records Department. Arthur had known him for...
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03 - Peter Harmon (2)
Chapter 3: Peter Harmon (Cont.) The photograph changed things. Not visibly. Arthur went to work. He spoke his corrections. He screamed during the Two...
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04 - The Arrest (1)
Chapter 4: The Arrest Three months after Peter vanished, Arthur noticed that his hands had stopped shaking. He noticed it during the Two Minutes Hate...
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04 - The Arrest (2)
Chapter 4: The Arrest (Cont.) The cell was small---perhaps three meters by two meters, though it was difficult to judge without reference points. The...
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05 - The Cells (1)
Chapter 5: The Cells The rules were simple. Face the telescreen at all times. Hands visible, never in pockets, never behind the back. No sleeping...
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05 - The Cells (2)
Chapter 5: The Cells (Cont.) They took him to a cell. Not his cell---a different one, larger, with a window. Arthur stopped in the doorway, staring...
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