Re-Animator
“It was only slightly worse than usual; he knew it was him—the experiment—and not the city itself. But it distracted him just the same.
He took the bottle from the refrigerator, held it to the bank of fluorescent lights.
“No separation,” he said. “It looks good.”
“Fine,” replied the only other person in the room, an elderly man in a lab jacket. He resumed his writing while West fetched a syringe from the cabinet.
Noise had always bothered him. Distracted him.
West remembered ...vividly when he was a child and there was a TV in his home in Canada. Westerns. Soap operas. Game shows. Bad enough to be distracted by noise, but to be distracted by idiocy . . .
He recalled how glad he had felt letting his parents’ executors sell it and give him the money. It was one of the few things that hadn’t been lost in the early-morning fire. The chemical fire.MoreLess
He took the bottle from the refrigerator, held it to the bank of fluorescent lights.
“No separation,” he said. “It looks good.”
“Fine,” replied the only other person in the room, an elderly man in a lab jacket. He resumed his writing while West fetched a syringe from the cabinet.
Noise had always bothered him. Distracted him.
West remembered ...vividly when he was a child and there was a TV in his home in Canada. Westerns. Soap operas. Game shows. Bad enough to be distracted by noise, but to be distracted by idiocy . . .
He recalled how glad he had felt letting his parents’ executors sell it and give him the money. It was one of the few things that hadn’t been lost in the early-morning fire. The chemical fire.MoreLess
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