04.10.08
Kathleen Wanders.
It was a nice fall day thankfully lacking in humidity, so Professor O’Neill decided to take a walk. To hell with the strangenesses; they couldn’t keep her in her office all day, not on such a nice day as this.
Down by one of the dorms, some students were busy raking up the leaves. Kathleen pondered the growing pile for a minute, then walked on. As much fun as it would be to disrupt the pile, there were no strangenesses there. She’d save it until there were no strangenesses anywhere, and then she’d go leafpile-jumping, no matter what Nora said about immature hobbies.
The odd couple on campus passed Kathleen; she tipped her hat at them as they passed. She liked them well enough, even if Talia’s rats were a little creepy and Roland himself was a little demented. There were no strangenesses there, so they were okay.
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Some miles away, I snorted a laugh and lost the wind I’d inhaled. Annoyed, I exhaled the rest of the scene, and watched the images fade into the still air.
