##Experimental Medicine

Mary sat on the park bench as the sun set behind her, eating a bag of seasoned oyster crackers. A figure wearing a long trench coat and a fedora sat next to her. The figure looked away.

"Did you come alone?" They had a deep raspy voice. Mary nodded her head. "Good. Did you see the story on Dr. Tyler in the City Times?"

"I wrote it."

"You need to issue a correction. Dr. Tyler doesn't just run a clinic for low-income people. He's a sick twisted man who runs experiments on the most desperate."

"How come I've never heard of it?" Mary asked.

"Because we're too ashamed to show ourselves." The figure lifted their head. The face was a woman's with multiple patches of skin sewn to it. Her left eyelid was held shut by a metal rod. Her neck was covered in slash marks. "My whole body is like this."

"Oh my god."

One week later, Mary hid in the bushes by Dr. Tyler's office. He locked the office door behind him as he left none the wiser. She persuaded the building supervisor to give her a master key in exchange for favorable reviews of his other properties. After waiting several minutes, she entered his clinic.

She tried to find a room that she hadn't seen on her previous visit where he tortured people. The first door she checked was a janitor's closet. When she opened it, she discovered a mop and cleaning supplies. The backwall was cracked and pushing it revealed a staircase.

At the bottom of the staircase was a laboratory with a table in the middle of the room. She turned on the light and screamed at the sight of his handiwork. A human body was on the table with its torso cut open. She moved closer to inspect it, and she found it completely hollow. Looking around the room, she saw jaws with internal organs inside of them. In the corner of the room, bones hung on a rack with liquid draining off of them. The scene was too much for her, and she vomited on the floor.

After taking several photos of the gruesome scene, she left in a hurry. In the alley, she collided with Dr. Tyler. He laughed as he helped her up.

"Sorry about that." He tilted his head at her. "Mary, what are you doing here?"

"Monster." She slapped him in the face and ran. Dr. Tyler looked at where she came from and realized she knew his secret. He chased her for several seconds but quickly gave up.

The next morning, Dr. Tyler's sadistic activities were on the front page of the City Times. The police went to his clinic to arrest him, but he disappeared. He left the unfortunate results of his experiments.

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