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- From: dmccart@gomez.intel.com (D. J. McCarthy)
- Subject: Re: Death's Gender
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- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 21:51:06 GMT
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-
- chaos wrote:
- >> Big Al writes:
- >> Who wants to have sex with Death, anyway?
- > i can't think of a soul, actually.
- > but i'm quite sure you'd have to have a date with Death, first.
-
-
- A DATE WITH DEATH
- =================
-
- A slight chill was in the air as I pulled the car over to the
- curb in front of Death's house. I dreaded driving this heap of
- rust, but it would have to do until my old Camaro was back from
- the shop. I reached over to the flowers on the passenger seat
- (carnations; lilies would have been way too cliche'), slid out
- of the car, shut the door, and walked up the path to Death's door.
-
- "Ding-dong." The doorbell had a far too pleasant tone to it,
- considering whose house it was attached to. Something bounded
- down the steps inside, stopped at the front door, and unlatched
- it. A smallish, freckled girl in her early teens, not unlike a
- post-pubescent Punky Brewster, started back at me. "Hi!" she
- said, far too exuberantly. "You must be Dee's blind date.
- Come on in, and have a seat on the couch."
-
- "DEE! YOUR DATE'S HERE! HE'S NOT AS CUTE AS THE LAST ONE!"
- she screamed up the stairs. Swell, I thought, I'm being ranked
- by Death's younger sister. I took a seat and waited. There
- was a pile of mail on the coffee table. I couldn't help but
- look at the addresses.
-
- THE POCALYPSE FAMILY - some sort of bill, it looked like.
- MR. WAR A. POCALYPSE OR CURRENT RESIDENT: YOU MAY ALREADY BE A
- WINNER! - Ed McMahon misses nobody, I see.
- Pesty Pocalypse - written in teenage-girl scrawl from some summer
- camp in Minnesota.
- Mrs. Famine Pocalypse - an issue of Better Homes and Gardens.
- Somehow, here, it just made *sense*.
-
-
- Just then Death came down the steps. She was gorgeous. Black
- satin strapless dress, slicked-back golden-brown hair tied up
- in a bun, one of those gold necklaces that you add pearls to as
- you save up money (or get people to buy for you; she had three),
- and just slightly too much makeup.
-
- Uh oh. "You do realize that we're going to a demolition derby,
- don't you?" I asked her.
-
- Idiot. Next time say hello first.
-
- "Sure do. Wouldn't miss it. I always dress up for demolition
- derbies; gets me noticed. Those for me?" she said and asked,
- pointing at the bouquet I still held.
-
- "What? Oh. Yeah," I said, handing them over to her.
-
- "How sweet. Pesty - make yourself useful and put these in a
- vase, would you please?" Death asked of the giggling half-face
- not very well hidden around the corner of the room.
-
- The little girl skipped into the room, grabbed the carnations
- from Death's hand - "Hey, be careful with those!" - and bounded
- off towards the kitchen.
-
- "Well? Shall we?" Death asked, extending her elbow for me to
- escort her with. Pretty classy, for someone so short on words.
- Pretty classy, for Death.
-
- We got to the car. I opened the door for her, walked around to
- the other side, got in, started her up, and eventually,
- wordlessly, got onto the highway.
-
-
- "Nice car. What is it?" Death asked, trying to make small talk.
- Death is not good at small talk.
-
- "Nice? You've got to be kidding. It's my folk's old Pinto.
- It sucks," I replied, instantly regretting my choice of words.
-
- "Oh, I don't know... it's perfect for what I have in mind,"
- Death smiled suggestively.
-
- "Really now," I said as innocently as I could. "And just what
- might that be?" I continued as I noticed the headlights of the
- Audi behind me for the first time.
-
-
- --
- D. J. McCarthy <dmccart@gomez.intel.com>
- "Whenever you come across something you don't understand, just think up an
- answer that SOUNDS as if it might work and forget about it."
- --Katrina Hill, alt.tv.red-dwarf, 8/19/92
-