The Bureau of Dreams to be Continued by Edward Drobinski - HTML preview

The Bureau of Dreams to be Continued

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Though the thoughts of a thousand childish horror movies flashed through his mind, he successfully hid the trepidation which seemed to well up throughout his entire existence. He recalled the long ago warning given by Sid; “Don’t play with little minds.” His intended little joke had seemed to have un-nerved a serious person; perhaps a dangerously serious person. He looked to Big Blonde and found some degree of comforting adjournment in her shrug, grimace, and back turn.

Little Cigar ended his consternation when he said; “We can get this flush with the other walls.”

Feeling relieved and a bit more plucky, he responded; “It doesn’t seem to be a problem right now. Besides, if you move the wall inward, the window will become useless. Unless, of course, you make a window of the entire area. Ah, even then it will be cut off at every edge. The only way I can conceive of getting around all these considerations is to move out all the other walls; and that’s just too expensive.”

Little Cigar calmly agreed, his furrowed brow indicative of a confusion he could not articulate or confound in the moment.

He was sure that he didn’t invite them and therefore felt that he owed them nothing more than minimal courtesy and an ushering to the front door. But, he thought that for a number of reasons