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Date Posted: 20:32:10 07/20/02 Sat
Author: Walter Patterson
Subject: "Kathryn."
In reply to: Chester Mann 's message, "Goodbye Sober Day" on 15:55:06 07/16/02 Tue

He skidded to a halt as he arrived from the medlabs. The desk clerk was in awe at the sight before him. It was both better and worse than anything he could have imagined. The tentacled cyclops before him was not the coldblooded fugitive who had left a guard within an inch of his life not twenty feet from his station earlier. However, his hostage was the beautiful librarian's assitant he had a crush on. He wondered if she knew. She might if he could ever string more than two or three words into a sentence when she was around. And on those rare days when he could make sense around her, when he was feeling a little confident, it seemed all he did was make corny jokes he was certain she only laughed at to be polite.

Well, here was an opportunity finally to change all that. How many damsel-in-distress scenarios had he crafted in the holonovels he secretly wrote in his spare time? How often had he identified with those protagonists who overcame all odds to reach their full potential and impress their lady?

"H-hey you g-get your damn tentacles off of her."

Somehow, he was sure the order was even quieter than it sounded to him.

"Whiskers and kittens! I'm not even armed! Why didn't I leave this to the soldiers?

He stared at the sharp teeth of the creature cradling his dream-girl and felt his fingertips going numb....

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Replies:

Manches, Interrupted -- Chester Mann, 19:55:47 07/22/02 Mon
- "This....is different..." She thought -- Kathryn Hanes, 22:06:30 07/27/02 Sat
  - Cereal Killer -- Chester Mann, 13:25:54 07/28/02 Sun
    - Walter felt sick.... -- Walter Patterson, 21:50:10 07/30/02 Tue
      - Chortle -- Chester Mann, 12:40:19 07/31/02 Wed
        Jabberwocky -- VertiCal & HorizontAl, 13:15:31 07/31/02 Wed
        Malas Palabras -- VertiCal & HorizontAl, 16:48:07 08/04/02 Sun
        He had the oddest feeling that he wasn't even supposed to be here today... -- Walter Patterson, 21:23:45 08/04/02 Sun
        Cal & Silent Al -- "Not so fast!", 00:01:36 08/05/02 Mon