The first time you lose one, it is a surprise. Then you get used to it, and develop of a routine as far as reanimation goes. Flat-line, get out the defibrillator, et cetera. When a client went into cardiac arrest, it was usually the combination of Shooting, Stabbing or Sharp (few made it to Splitting) with Fearful or Punishing-Cruel, and it usually happened around Distressing or Horrible. Stress and fear seemed to play as great a role in cardiac arrest among clients as did the actual intensity of pain. Most clients hit the panic button before they even made it that far.
So the first time someone actually died the entire situation was so atypical that we weren
Somebody get this man a publishing house.
Methinks this has too much potential in a Michael Marshall Smith kind of way to be sacrificed to November.
Bibliophilia
Anna and Bo came round for margueritas (blended with ice, very nice), pizza (slightly cold, we’re not sure how to work this new oven properly…) and Kevin Smith movies (thirty-seven?) last night and Bo told of how he had stood…
hey dad, you’re good!
Okay, beta commenting here is getting creepy in a weird way…
Dad, you don’t know me, but Mom says she met you once in Seattle.