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.
Posted on April 17, 2022
Mr. Starbuck was granted an inadvertent reprieve when Millicent Pinchbeck and the Well-Dressed Albatross fell suddenly and inexplicably in love.
Posted on April 17, 2022
Arriving at the 86th floor Brad was once again greeted by Ukifune, who announced that they had a different job for him than they’d discussed earlier. Unbeknownst to Brad, Millicent had followed him, and lurked.
Posted on April 17, 2022
Awaiting the ferry that would take him to an interview for a job scrubbing down dog kennels with hand-sanitizer, Brad struck up a conversation with Millicent Pinchbeck. She grew attentive when he spoke of his acquaintanceship with Mr. Starbuck.
Posted on January 7, 2022
Uncles of the Well-Dressed Albatross had long been plagued by Millicent Pinchbeck. Despite her long hours working as a tax auditor, Millicent still found time to lecture sad, lost creatures on the importance of temperance and civic propriety.
Posted on January 7, 2022
For Millicent knew all about Pim and Bim and their propensity for sealing themselves in jars. She used to pass them daily, back when she was an enforcer of government standards in Glim’s factories (the abysmal working conditions; the heinous environmental footprint.)
Posted on January 7, 2022
In her relentless search for Mr. Starbuck, Millicent would often pass the adobe abode of Pim and Bim. She had no time for their banal pleasantries.
Posted on January 5, 2022
Focused as she was on evaluating the lemonade, Millicent failed to notice her quarry passing within metres of her.
Posted on January 5, 2022
Despite being driven by duty and rectitude in her relentless pursuit of Mr. Starbuck, Millicent Pinchbeck was not above being diverted by a personal weakness.
Posted on January 5, 2022
Mr. Starbuck had been so successful at keeping one move ahead of Millicent that at times they felt themselves endpoints of a Euclidean line, possessing no formal properties beyond length and one-dimensionality.
Posted on August 29, 2021
In her youth, working as a bounty hunter, Millicent Pinchbeck had once captured Uncle Thales; luring him with a dating app and then delivering him to the authorities for tax evasion. Today, while questioning Thales’ nephew about Mr. Starbuck, she didn’t even sit down.
