Shortly thereafter, Tony and his staff moved their operations to Floor 17.

Death and mayhem were woven into the very fabric of the building'. Bailey Lawrence Kane aka 'Lawyer' was unable to dissuade Tony from renting this office space. In 2005, Tony Barone was determined to rent Floor 17. Madson Tower, run by Thomas Madson, had been built on the site of a 1930's radium factory. The company constructed buildings on cheap, undesirable land. Madson Tower was a post-modern skyscraper in Syracuse, New York. and to face it, they'll all have to first face their own mangled pasts and bad memories. Madson Tower has something sinister at work within its walls. Tony Barone, the executive of an advertising agency, plans to rent out Floor 17 at a discounted price, dragging with him his four employees and his ten-year-old daughter, Selena. The tower has been neglected, cheapened by the horrors that happened on the land. until the mysterious happenings took it over, including a mass murder of eleven people on Floor 17. The Madson Tower was once one of the most ultramodern corporate skyscrapers in Syracuse, innovative and prestigious. ' Red rain, white-striped towers and a clear blue sky, it was like America’s flag exploded everywhere that day.' First published on September 11th, 2017, Bittersweet Symphony is a postmodern gothic novella following seven severely flawed characters who come to believe that their office on the 17th Floor of a tower in the city of Syracuse is haunted - but it's also a foreboding tale of the inherent flaws of modern corporate culture.

Bittersweet Symphony by Rebecca McNutt