While out walking just now

[james_davis_nicoll]

I thought I'd found another body on Charles Street, which would have been tricky because I was rushing to get a washroom. Just a full set of clothes, with nobody in them. I am just going to assume I missed a localized Rapture or something.

Seems to be my day for finding things. I also found a wallet on the bus.

Comments

[tavella.livejournal.com]

Another? You have previously found a body there?

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Other side of Charlies, up two blocks. Turned out to be a paralytically drunk university student abandoned by his friends after he collapsed.

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

I have done this (not on Charles Street). It is my opinion that "I don't need help" should be accompanied by the ability to stand up, or at least lay entirely on the sidewalk without any body parts hanging out into the street. Happily by the time I got into this rather one sided debate I had already phoned for help and the people responsible for pouring him into the drunk tank were already on their way.

[w. dow rieder (from livejournal.com)]

"Or something." Like a Paranoia character who recently suffered from an extreme equipment malfunction, perhaps?

The first sentence of your post would make a fine opening sentence for a novel, in any one of a variety of genres. Adding the second makes it sound like something Stross might write.

[autopope.livejournal.com]

Alas, I am going in a different direction this decade, as exemplified by the opening line of 2018's second novel:

Skuld's salad days as a suicide bomber came to an end after her eighth successful mission, when she awakened from the resurrection tank to find new orders directing her to pursue a career in academia.

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

Out of the frying pan into the fire?

[w. dow rieder (from livejournal.com)]

Sounds cool. Glad I decided not to use 'Skuld' as the name for a significant character in my work--I hate accidental name collisions 8-)

[bruce munro (from livejournal.com)]

The fact my head is full of odd crap is brought to my attention again when I immediately visualized her: http://www.absoluteanime.com/oh_my_goddess/skuld.gif

(In my defense, she is fond of explosive devices).

[nojay.livejournal.com]

In her defence, many of her devices which exploded were not designed to explode. Well, not as part of their primary function. Mostly.

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

Explosions are like good deserts. They go with everything.

[ticktockman.livejournal.com]

So this means in a few years I will open your book, read the first sentence, and immediately have an unsolvable case of deja vu.

[awesomeaud.livejournal.com]

Perhaps the clothing's owner suffers from Chrono-Impairment, like one of the protagonists in The Time-Traveler's Wife.

[ironyoxide.livejournal.com]

I suspect Jedi shenanigans. Did you see a lightsaber?

[bunsen-h.livejournal.com]

A complete set of clothing including underwear laid out as though a body had evaporated from within? I remember reading about how that can be done: a full-body balloon, IIRC.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

I did not check underwear.

[petenewell.livejournal.com]

So what were the clothes full *of*, then?