HOLD ONTO YOUR BODY!
By Richard O. Lewis
People do strange things—an example,
committing suicide for no apparent reason.
Unless it's time for a change of identity!
[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from
Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy
October 1953
Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]
"Fidwell," I said, "why don't you go lose yourself!"
He stared at me uncomprehendingly for a full three seconds. Then a glimmer of understanding leaped into his beady little eyes and he got up from the chair before my desk and started happily toward the outer door of the office.
"Okay, Mr. Nelson," he said over a thin shoulder. "Just whatever you say."
"Better still," I amended, tapping the glass top of my desk with manicured nails, "go shoot yourself."
He nodded blithely. "Just as you say, T. J. Just as you say." He always called me T. J. when he felt that I was giving him a measure of attention.