• Killer Tim
    • Part 2: Three's a Problem
    • Part 3: Ninth Avenue
    • Part 4: Peru Avenue
    • Part 5: Toast
    • Part 6: Mrs. Pellegrini
    • Part 7: Charlie
    • Part 8: 2D
    • Part 9: Smith
    • Part 10: Cece
    • Part 11: Quarter Moon
    • Part 12: Interview
    • Part 13: Mieke
    • Part 14: 2D Ex
    • Part 15: Logs
    • Part 16: Steiner
    • Part 17: Number Five
    • Part 18: Cold
    • Part 19: Intern
    • Part 20: Coffee
    • Part 21: Sloth
    • Part 22: Tennessee Street
    • Part 23: Error-correcting Code
    • Part 24: Villa Lobos
    • Part 25: Entrance
    • Part 26: Cloak
    • Part 27: Meeting
    • Part 28: Fog
    • Part 29: Boodle
    • Part 30: Drafted
    • Part 31: Domino
    • Part 32: Quartet
    • Part 33: Skippy
    • Part 34: Blisflix
    • Part 35: Billikin
    • Part 36: Chronicle
    • Part 37: Sutro Heights
    • Part 38: Conference
  • Third Sons
    • November 1959
    • December 1889
    • December 1930
    • April 1890
    • December 1959
    • August 1964
    • June 1890
    • January 1967
    • March 1931
    • January 1967, continued
    • September 1898
    • November 1898
    • Winter/Spring 1943
    • January 1974
    • April 1899
    • January 1974, continued
    • October 1899
    • March 1944
    • November 1899
    • January/February 1974
    • June 1900
    • April 1886
    • June 1900, continued
    • October 1945
    • March 1974
    • May 1901
  • Else
    • O'Jitterys Catch a Movie
    • Winnie the Publican
    • Interview with the Alien
    • Gibberal doggerish
    • Dialog
    • Story
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Killer Tim, part 3: Ninth Avenue

...ribbitulated bopilarity. Sophic distillacrity. Billeted gristation. Filleted blistoricity, oboy. Trinkin' and plinkin' and not a chance of bristric ablution. Rowsy? Browsy! Middle of the morning. Jest without warning. Gistric subbourning....

From the shadows across the street, Tim stands and watches the empty space in front of 1736 Ninth Avenue. There isn't much to see at 3:00 a.m. The closest streetlights are 77 feet to the south and 90 feet to the north.

Tim is working the puzzle of Alan Rugg, who Tim knows as eight. Eight seems not to go out at night. One, two, and three were nocturnal. Finding them alone in the early hours was easy. Eight never shows until lighttime.


...All about the mundelay, Rhoda Rhimstone pitters and frones her waysy days away. Awrily already, sustended brew Bletty acheered in each buyer-gherkin, ratched and wreakened, blown bowl the way through (tetraquadrisesquilineal). 'Sodden?' 'Deciduously'....

Tim knows he needs more information about eight. Does he go out at night? When he does go out, will the moon be new? Unlikely.

Tim has two hours and 45 minutes until the first light of dawn. He is a 35-minute walk from home. He decides to stand sentinel at 1736 Ninth Ave. for another 45 minutes. This gets Tim home well before the city's usual 4:30 a.m. stirring. Tim knows well the rhythm of the morning.

And this morning's rhythm is off a bit. No SFPD sightings. Tim usually spots a patrol car every 70 minutes on average when he's on sentinel.


...Lid'll do ya till they fool ya, and they do, yuh. Fid'll stew ya soon as boo ya. Oh, listen. Brissision freemission dissition. Preminory, exgulpadory, pestilamorous, diaphragenous. Did I say you said you see your way clear to the forest caught once, twice a time or two? Bet you saw my sorta poplin pepsic coleration....

Motionless at his post in the shadows, Tim ponders the consequences of randomization and expansion of the list. How will the new candidates be chosen? Tim's eyes shine dully in the dark as he considers the many, diverse possibilities.

...Attic, apparibly mestitute and deripped of unrevotionality, Serpous, the Dauphin of Exigence, strows prestibly over the melding widges beyond the foreflung mantling bown....

At 3:37 a.m., Tim watches a car turn left off Moraga onto Ninth Ave. Directly in front of number 1736, the driver slows the least bit, then proceeds north down Ninth Avenue. Twenty-five seconds after the car is out of sight, Tim makes his way through the open gates and dogless backyards of two houses leading to Eighth Ave. He turns left on Eighth and begins his wending way back to 2204 Steiner, buoyed by the prospect of a day spent retrieving information, and accompanied by syllabric nonsense.

Part 4: Peru Avenue

Part 1: Tim
Part 2: Three's a Problem
Part 3: Ninth Avenue
Part 4: Peru Avenue
Part 5: Toast
Part 6: Mrs. Pellegrini
Part 7: Charlie
Part 8: 2D
Part 9: Smith
Part 10: Cece
Part 11: Quarter Moon
Part 12: Interview
Part 13: Mieke
Part 14: 2D Ex
Part 15: Logs
Part 16: Steiner
Part 17: Number Five
Part 18: Cold
Part 19: Intern
Part 20: Coffee
Part 21: Sloth
Part 22: Tennessee Street
Part 23: Error-correcting Code
Part 24: Villa Lobos
Part 25: Entrance
Part 26: Cloak
Part 27: Meeting
Part 28: Fog

Part 29: Bootle
​Part 30: Drafted
​Part 31: Domino
Part 32: Quartet
Part 33: Skippy
Part 34: Blisflix
Part 35: Billikin
Part 36: Chronicle
Part 37: Sutro Heights
Part 38: Conference

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  • Killer Tim
    • Part 2: Three's a Problem
    • Part 3: Ninth Avenue
    • Part 4: Peru Avenue
    • Part 5: Toast
    • Part 6: Mrs. Pellegrini
    • Part 7: Charlie
    • Part 8: 2D
    • Part 9: Smith
    • Part 10: Cece
    • Part 11: Quarter Moon
    • Part 12: Interview
    • Part 13: Mieke
    • Part 14: 2D Ex
    • Part 15: Logs
    • Part 16: Steiner
    • Part 17: Number Five
    • Part 18: Cold
    • Part 19: Intern
    • Part 20: Coffee
    • Part 21: Sloth
    • Part 22: Tennessee Street
    • Part 23: Error-correcting Code
    • Part 24: Villa Lobos
    • Part 25: Entrance
    • Part 26: Cloak
    • Part 27: Meeting
    • Part 28: Fog
    • Part 29: Boodle
    • Part 30: Drafted
    • Part 31: Domino
    • Part 32: Quartet
    • Part 33: Skippy
    • Part 34: Blisflix
    • Part 35: Billikin
    • Part 36: Chronicle
    • Part 37: Sutro Heights
    • Part 38: Conference
  • Third Sons
    • November 1959
    • December 1889
    • December 1930
    • April 1890
    • December 1959
    • August 1964
    • June 1890
    • January 1967
    • March 1931
    • January 1967, continued
    • September 1898
    • November 1898
    • Winter/Spring 1943
    • January 1974
    • April 1899
    • January 1974, continued
    • October 1899
    • March 1944
    • November 1899
    • January/February 1974
    • June 1900
    • April 1886
    • June 1900, continued
    • October 1945
    • March 1974
    • May 1901
  • Else
    • O'Jitterys Catch a Movie
    • Winnie the Publican
    • Interview with the Alien
    • Gibberal doggerish
    • Dialog
    • Story
  • Mandolinoleum
  • About
  • Contact