bill davis had an authoritarian personality, especially on wednesdays.
he had bad dreams, mostly on thursday nights and friday mornings.
he had definite ideas, particularly on certain subjects.
he felt that people, rich or poor, should get what they deserved.
he did not find it extraordinary that he was alive, or that anyone else was.
some of his employees considered him a fascist, but he did not know the meaning of the word.
flora miller, bill’s secretary, dreamed of freedom.
ray tucker, bill’s longest tenured employee, considered himself a misunderstood genius.
things went on in this way for a good while.
nothing groundbreaking or extraordinary happened.
but humans can be funny sometimes.
flora miller disappeared, and folks pretended for a while to be interested.
then ray tucker disappeared too, even though he had lived in the town his whole life.
and finally, and strangest of all, bill davis himself and his authoritarian and imperialist personality, disappeared.
it is important to understand that this was back in the old days.
before the internet and social media, people could just vanish without a trace.
flora miller did not even have a social security number!
she had just been hired by bill davis right out of high school because bill knew her brother tom.
it all seemed natural back then.
not that people just disappeared, but that they could.
maybe flora married a rich msn.
maybe ray tucker changed his name and proved his genius by making a billion dollars.
maybe bill davis joined the hare krishnas or otherwise became some kind of monk.
revolution was in the air , at least for a while.
now things have settled down and everybody knows who everybody else is.
but this was in the sensational and subversive old days.
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