The point is, her leg-to-torso ratio was the kinda thing a guy doesn’t forget easily. Not literally miles, of course, my office is only nine feet tall (as I learned the hard way, trying to install an Ikea bookcase). She had light blonde hair, a scowl that could cut diamonds, and legs that went on for miles. Or looking for a competent private eye, anyway. She strolled into my office like she was looking for trouble. Not like that, I mean, there was this one time in college but that doesn’t– anyway, it was a very unusual case. It was a queer sort of case then again, I’m a queer sort of detective. I think that getting away with this last one is my proudest achievement as a professional, and I only regret that I will never be able to put it on my resume and have it reach anyone who will appreciate it. Two hours later, he had to be placed in the padded room for his own protection.”įinally I got to “I’ll call the new patients to my office first, and then I’ll summon Qutu’ullah and the other old ones.” Then I moved up to things like “Bob in Room 5 saw Qutu’ullah for a few moments this morning. I started simple, like “10:00 - Qutu’ullah lies sleeping, but soon he will awake.” This freed me to be as silly as I wanted with everything I said around them or wrote in my documentation. Apparently Lovecraft isn’t very popular around here. I asked the people I was working with if they saw anything funny about this. I won’t say the exact name to protect privacy, but think something like Qutu’ullah and you won’t be far off. He actually has a very foreign name which is pronounced as Cthulhu, but which is apparently pretty common among his ethnic group.
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