[MaC] An Interruption

Dorothea Salo dorothea at textartisan.com
Fri Dec 24 09:05:51 EST 2004


> "Not good news, I'm afraid," he said.  "They've found an incendiary - 
> unexploded.  They want us to stay put while it's defused.  And we were 
> showing a light.  The warden's coming up to fix the blackout now."
> 
> Indeed, in the odd stillness that darkness sometimes gives, the clank of 
> the lift could be heard as it started its descent.  Lucinda gave a 
> little chuckle.
> 
> "You should have told him to take the stairs, Oswald!"

	"From ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggedy beasties and things that 
go bang in the night, good Lord deliver us, *especially* on Christmas 
Eve," Pamela murmured.



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