The Master's Child
"... What I wanted to ask was, could you find me a barber. It's just another of those minor luxuries that..."
Rising from my seat, I cut him short. "Done."
*****
It does, in fact, get Klempner out of the bed, but propped up by cushions, he relaxes back into a revolving chair.
The hairdresser, in his thirties, trendy, and rather obviously gay, hovers over him. "How would you like it, sir?"
"Just shorter and tidier. Whatever's the style for the local men of my age around here."
"Very good, sir. And the beard?"
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