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Weekly Contest #373
I’m such a messy, absent-minded sort of guy that sometimes I can’t even find my glasses when I wake up—glasses with bottle-thick lenses. That was exactly what happened when I heard someone banging on the door. At the first knock I didn’t even blink, because I was sleeping deeply. But at the second, third, and fourth, I opened my eyes and shuddered in time with each one. These weren’t ordinary knocks, the kind that say, “I was just passing by to see if you were home.” They were more along the lines of, “Get up, you lazy bastard, or I’ll drag ...
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