into the pill - Issue 10

DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER

Half an hour later the recorder heard a knock on the door and then after a pause the noise of the door and then, after a pause, the noise of the door opening. I was dressed like a waiter, with a basket of fruit bearing a note saying, ‘With the compliments of the Management’.I came into the room and walked quikly over to the beside table. I undid two screws, removed the reel of fine wire on the recorder’s turntable, replaced it with a fresh reel, put the basket of fruit on the dressing table and went out and closed the door. Then for several hours the recorder whirred silently on, recording nothing.

Sifis Lykakis