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- From: waldbyjf@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU (The Automatic Waldby)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Hulman Blues
- Message-ID: <9207222305.AA26827@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 23:05:36 GMT
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- Reply-To: waldbyjf@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU
- Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
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- The parking lot was empty this time. No men in dark suits waiting
- around by my car to have a "chat" with me. It was late. Only three
- other cars were left. I kept my eyes in the rearview mirror while I
- eased my sports model out onto the highway. None of the cars followed
- me.
-
- I lit up a cigarette and switched on the radio. I had to think.
- Just my rotten luck, the station chose that moment to play an old
- ABBA song. The same one that was playing the night I said goodbye
- to Her.
-
- "Whatta you want outta me?" I started to say it out loud, then
- stopped. Talking to yourself is always the first sign of insanity.
- I decided to worry about that later -- if there was to be a later
- -- and kept right on talking to myself. "You already got Her." It
- was almost a sob. Now I was starting to scare myself. I shut up.
-
- I spit my cigarrette out the window and yanked at the radio knob to
- turn the damn thing off. The car swerved dangerously while I was
- fishing a pint bottle of gin outta my glove box. I had to start
- flushing that damn song out of my ears so I could start thinking.
- Where could they have taken Her?
-
- Then a voice spoke from my car speakers. A voice I knew very well.
- The voice that chills my bones down to a few degrees centigrade:
- The voice of Dr. Pibb.
-
- "Out for a evening drive, Julian, dear boy?" I gripped the wheel.
- Tight. How did he know? "Naughty naughty. I would have expected
- to find you spending a quiet and productive evening in the lab."
-
- I felt a cold fury rising, momentarily swamping my terror. "Bastard!
- What have you done with Her?"
-
- "There's someone here who wishes to speak to you." Oh my God. I
- turned up the volume and strained to listen.
-
- "Julian?" The soft voice. Yes. Yes! It was Her!
-
- Mother.
-
- --
- Auto - Waldby
-