Hi Terry! Catching up on fics
, look at the gray suit coat – size fifty-four long
So, here’s the title from. /after reading the rest/ oh boy, that title is a reference to the suit coat, and combined with the first person, it substitutes to ‘My Goodbye’
hung up on a corner of a drawer in the gray filing cabinet, flick my gray tie, and shake my gray head.
Very dark and gray and depressing. Also, it’s raining today, so the weather’s dark and gray and depressing, too, right now. How did you do this?
I realize that I’ve never counted to see if I have as many as fifty shades of gray in the office.
I never read it but I’m pop-culture aware enough to make fun with it. So, is the secretary the girl from Fifty Shades? (btw, there’s an urban myth out there that Fifty Shades is Twilight fanfic with sex and Twilight is Superman fanfic with sex which makes Fifty Shades Superman fanfic with sex to the power of sex.
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I really don’t have enough foot traffic or phone calls nowadays to keep a secretary as good as Effie busy, but she just waves me off if I suggest that she find a better job – “better” being defined as one that pays more regularly than I can pay her.
I lean back in the beat-up wooden office chair and listen to the tortured squeak. It sounds old and tired. Almost worn out.
Like me.
Oh dear, this would work great as a end-times day fic for the Daily Planet with just Perry and Lois holding the fort after online media has first decimated print news and then also factual news until it reached the point where anything longer than 140 characters isn’t going to find an audience capable of enough reading comprehension to make sense of it.
A lot of the cases I’ve worked had been difficult to resolve, a few had been downright weird, but I’ve had a bunch of good laughs. And a few tears, too. Not every case ended in a party.
Terry’s fics!
He was nice enough to give me some pointers on my technique, then he did me a real solid and helped to set me up in the business.
Awwww.../goes digging in the morgue/ “[url=http://www.lcfanfic.com/stories/2004/html/endofthe.html]The End of the Matter[url]” alternate ending to a Tank fic?
He’s retired now, and I haven’t heard from him in years
Oh great, now I’m flashing to Babylon 5’s Sleeping in Light and all the friends and compatriots that have moved on beyond the veil.
I almost don’t recognize her. But it’s Harley.
I don’t know if you described her hair before but given that Harley Quinn Season 3 is going to start this supper, I can’t help but flash to the HBO version
She’s wearing her standard red-and-black outfit without the mask and her blonde hair is down instead of braided or pony-tailed on either side.
Oh, it’s not just the name. Has it been *that* long?
Got it. She isn’t smiling.
That’s really weird. Harley’s not smiling. I’ve never seen that before.
She waves at the chair in front of my desk and says, “Mind if I sit down?”
So, shrink session with Dr. Quinzell?
“At least, I always thought it turned out nice.”
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Effie’s smile quirks sideways. “True, but we really don’t want any more versions of him running around loose, do we?”
Well… say, did you ever do a Vatman?
I’ll always have my case files. And who knows? I might do some freelancing in my twilight years.
/points at the nice little ho-ho-down from two weeks ago/
I really have had a great run. Been lots of fun, too. I’ve really enjoyed it.
Thanks. And goodbye.
Awwwww
This is it, my final contribution to this wonderful sandbox in which I’ve been privileged to play for more years than I want to total up. And I wanted my swan song for Lois and Clark to be memorable.
It was!
Best wishes to everyone. Good night, and may the Lord guide and bless your steps.
Terry, thanks for all your wonderful contributions to this fandom and all the fun we’ve had BR’ing! May you have the best years possible for you in your retirement!
Michael
