It was mid-morning when The Shadowy Figure reached home, made sure the nanny had gotten the kids off to school, fed the goldfish, rotated the aloe vera, and sat down to enter events of the last 24 hours in his private journal, as all investigators should.
Pim Comic Strip
How I came to write Pim
People often ask how I came to write Pim. It seems like a thousand years since I discovered Pim, or that Pim
discovered me. Thankfully I kept detailed notes and saved photos from that time. While I can’t swear to the
absolute accuracy of what you are about to read, I have done my best to capture the essence of how Pim entered my life.
The report from the Shadowy Figure came in moments after Mr. Love had parked his 1960 Buick Electra in front of the motel he so often occupied when overwhelmed by life’s complications, and checked in to Room 13.
Walking home The Shadowy Figure filed his report on a newly acquired Samsung Galaxy S9 smartphone.
After the movie was done and he’d cleaned out the popcorn machine and locked up, Mr. Love Jr. made his way back to the second floor railroad flat where he lived rent-free (his landlord having died some years previously, intestate and as yet undiscovered.)
Sometimes, mid-reel, he’d wander down and take a seat in the theatre.
…and projected the films himself, even when there was no one in the audience.
Having no staff, Mr. Love Jr. handled ticket sales himself, on the rare occasion there were any…
Mr. Love hired The Shadowy Figure to locate his son, who had purchased an old movie theatre that he managed alone and that showcased “the saddest movies ever made.”
Some hours later Pim and Bim came to the same fork in the same road and simply turned around. (Who can imagine Pim and Bim impulsively separating?)
Slim and Ukifune came to a fork in the road, and each moved forward along a different tine. (Surely we can’t imagine the two continuing through the world in a long term partnership.)
