The Mysterious Story of Billy Milligan

Daniel Keyes is a science fiction writer who received the two most prestigious awards, the Hugo and the Nebula, for a short story and a novel with the same title: "Flowers for Algernon." Almost twenty years later, the documentary novel "The Mysterious Story of Billy Milligan" was published, securing the author's worldwide fame. Billy wakes up in a prison cell. He is accused of rape and robbery. Billy is shocked because he didn't do any of this! The last memory he has is of the school roof from which he wanted to jump. He is told that seven years have passed since then. Billy is horrified. Another piece of his life has been stolen! They ask him what it means to "have a piece of life stolen" and why "again"? Does this happen to him for the first time? But Billy cannot answer. Billy is already gone. Instead, one of the twenty-four personalities looks at the readers. She is here to protect Billy…