Caroline Minuscule (2012)
“How bloody inconvenient.
He was standing just inside the door of his supervisor’s room in the History Department. Three yards away, a corpulent, tweed-covered shape sprawled on the oatmeal carpet, to the right of the desk. The eyes and the tongue protruded from its bloated face towards Dougal in the doorway.
No doubt about it: the life had been sucked out of Doctor Gumper. Its absence left a chilly vacuum in the overheated atmosphere.
Dougal felt lightheaded and detached. Don’t panic. It must h...ave been a heart attack, he told himself; Gumper had always been pink with comfortable living and irritation.
The angle-poise lamp on the desk was switched on, spilling a puddle of light over the body. Did that mean that Gumper had died recently? Probably not – the lamp would have been on for hours, for the room was badly lit and the dull February day outside had been drab and overcast.
Suddenly Dougal caught sight of a detail he had missed before. The light was glinting on a filament of nylon which dangled from Gumper’s neck, to the left of his Adam’s apple, down to the floor.MoreLess
He was standing just inside the door of his supervisor’s room in the History Department. Three yards away, a corpulent, tweed-covered shape sprawled on the oatmeal carpet, to the right of the desk. The eyes and the tongue protruded from its bloated face towards Dougal in the doorway.
No doubt about it: the life had been sucked out of Doctor Gumper. Its absence left a chilly vacuum in the overheated atmosphere.
Dougal felt lightheaded and detached. Don’t panic. It must h...ave been a heart attack, he told himself; Gumper had always been pink with comfortable living and irritation.
The angle-poise lamp on the desk was switched on, spilling a puddle of light over the body. Did that mean that Gumper had died recently? Probably not – the lamp would have been on for hours, for the room was badly lit and the dull February day outside had been drab and overcast.
Suddenly Dougal caught sight of a detail he had missed before. The light was glinting on a filament of nylon which dangled from Gumper’s neck, to the left of his Adam’s apple, down to the floor.MoreLess
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