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

[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.