Captain Mendonça

"I felt an acute pain in the top part of my skull; a foreign object went in to the inside of my brain. I know nothing else. I think I fainted. When I came to, the laboratory was empty. Father and daughter had disappeared. I had the impression there was a curtain in front of me. A loud and hoarse voice resounded in my ears."

Genre: short story
Translated from Portuguese (Brazil) by Juan LePuen
Length: 8,700 words