diff --git a/teaching/haiku-x-fiction/20230401pm.html b/teaching/haiku-x-fiction/20230401pm.html index 48dfbb613..029b34315 100644 --- a/teaching/haiku-x-fiction/20230401pm.html +++ b/teaching/haiku-x-fiction/20230401pm.html @@ -27,6 +27,49 @@ rests beside too-sweet drinks.
But no, this hank of cotton was long, flat, slender. It had been folded in half before being stuffed into whatever bottle — handily missing from the scene — and removed any doubt as to its provenance.
The room was empty. Only I stood there, hovering before the table, hands stuffed deep in my pockets, as I tried to reconstruct the evening. No detective, I, but the tableau invited attempts at explanation: too drinks, far too sweet or far to strong, and a missing bottle of pills. Were the drinks strong enough to cover the taste of pills, ground up and stirred in? Or were they simply meant to wash them down? Were the pills taken willingly or not?
And the diners, where were they?
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