Locked in a jail of Mr. Love’s despondency, the Well-Dressed Albatross was at last liberated by the ringing of Mr. Love’s phone, for which only one person had the number. Pim and Bim, weary of bearing witness, had left to occupy a room at the Uz Inn, a hotel vacant even of staff.
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.
And so Ukifune moved from Vanity to Uz, thinking carefree thoughts, as she did during transitions.
The population of Vanity enjoyed the cookies, particularly after they’d been rolled in batter and deep-fried. Having sold all of her inventory Ukifune departed, only moments before the town caught fire and burned to the ground.
Actually, the epidemic had killed everyone except Gim, who remained tepidly ill as always. Gim had relocated here just prior to the outbreak, imagining that an idyllic town in the middle of nowhere would be a safe place.
Clive had enterred the town—whose name was Uz—the same day as Pim and Bim. Using money owed him from Uncle Thanatos’s winning ticket his plan was to open a church based on the absolutes of mathematics. That Uz could supply no congregants was a problem Clive had yet to tackle.
For once it wasn’t a deed of unspeakable vileness that Mr. Love wanted from the Well-Dressed Albatross. It was a concern of a personal nature. Mr. Love had chosen this house for its candlelit privacy, the inhabitants of the town having all died in an epidemic the previous year.
As Pim and Bim moved toward the house, dusk fell on the town like a shaggy brown dog. Despite their age and all the places they’d been, Pim and Bim still possessed the potential for being surpised. And as they peeked through the front window they were.
Pim and Bim entered the town and found it uninhabited. In one house only they saw what looked to be movement behind a window and they stood before it wondering what to do next.
Pim and Bim reached the edge of the desert which gave onto a landscape lush and fecund, a quaint little town nested in its vista.
Ukifune came out of the desert and presently saw a town before her, and the name of that town was ‘Vanity,’ and in the town was a fair, called ‘Vanity Fair.’
