Thursday, January 11, 2007

In Which I Am Immortalized in Prose


One of her hands went to her lips. “I’m Cladis. Jimmy, I have terrible news for you. Someone came through that gate earlier today but he was killed by a rabid Boon almost as soon as he landed.” She lay a hand on Jimmy’s shoulder as she spoke. “I’m sorry.”

Jimmy was silent, stunned. The world seemed to lurch. “Rod?” He asked softly but Cladis went on, confessing.

I came across this story while doing some self-Googling, and wondered if it was coincidental that one of the characters shared my first and last names. It wasn’t, which I think is pretty awesome, actually, especially considering I die a gruesome, deserved death in the story.

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