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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.

Date: 2016-04-17 06:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tavella.livejournal.com
Another? You have previously found a body there?

Date: 2016-04-17 01:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

Date: 2016-04-18 05:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

Date: 2016-04-17 08:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

Date: 2016-04-17 12:03 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] 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.
Edited Date: 2016-04-17 12:03 pm (UTC)

Date: 2016-04-17 02:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] icecreamempress.livejournal.com
Out of the frying pan into the fire?

Date: 2016-04-17 05:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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-)

Date: 2016-04-17 10:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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).

Date: 2016-04-17 11:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

Date: 2016-04-18 05:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scott-sanford.livejournal.com
Explosions are like good deserts. They go with everything.

Date: 2016-04-20 03:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

Date: 2016-04-17 02:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] awesomeaud.livejournal.com
Perhaps the clothing's owner suffers from Chrono-Impairment, like one of the protagonists in The Time-Traveler's Wife.

Date: 2016-04-17 03:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ironyoxide.livejournal.com
I suspect Jedi shenanigans. Did you see a lightsaber?

Date: 2016-04-17 03:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

Date: 2016-04-20 03:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] james-nicoll.livejournal.com
I did not check underwear.

Date: 2016-04-18 01:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] petenewell.livejournal.com
So what were the clothes full *of*, then?

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