Free Range by Bill Whitehead for February 18, 2022

Shrink speaks with “forked” tongue.

“You got a back entrance to this place?”

♫♪ Gimme three steps, gimme three steps, mister

And you’ll never see me no more ♪♫

— Lynyrd Skynyrd, Gimmie Three Steps, 1973

But Doc, it’s reality, look!

Dr. Frankenstein at a session?

I would have joined the mob but there were no more pitchforks left at the hardware store.

Paranoia based in reality.

You’re not paranoid if they’re really are out to get you.

Well it all started just after I moved to my new apartment in downtown Ottawa three weeks ago…

Jan. 6

“The fact that we’re on the 19th floor?”

“You just have to set the pitchfork carriers against the torch carriers, then sit back and watch the show.”

Geez, I’d hate to see his inner demons!