I have nurses I can talk to and thermometers to hold

[sovay]

On the one hand it is incredibly stupid that I had to rescue the car from its wheel-spinning stall in refrozen snow with a box of cat sand fetched from the front hall, but on the other I feel incredibly smug that it worked.

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[sovay]

Nicely done! And environmentally superior to brightly coloured poisonous salts.

Thank you! It left a clay smear on the snow and the street will not notice when it melts. Frankly it might improve the state of the asphalt.

(Do you remember a short story about a necklace of poisonous stones passing from person to person? I wish to cite it but cannot remember enough particulars to do so.)

(No, but it sounds amazing and I would love to know its title if you track it down!)

[radiantfracture]

This cannot hope to compete with the stalactite, but after some searching I believe it is a story by Miriam Allen Deford with the helpful title of "The Poison Necklace," which I possibly first consumed in the collection _Thrillers and More Thrillers_ (paperback ed. 1972) -- seems plausible because this collection also contains a story called "Faith, Hope, and Charity," which if it is the one I remember -- about desperadoes -- really effed me up.

[sovay]

a story by Miriam Allen Deford with the helpful title of "The Poison Necklace," which I possibly first consumed in the collection _Thrillers and More Thrillers_ (paperback ed. 1972) -- seems plausible because this collection also contains a story called "Faith, Hope, and Charity," which if it is the one I remember -- about desperadoes -- really effed me up.

I don't think I know either of those stories! I will look for them and take care.

(The Internet Archive obliges.)

[radiantfracture]

It turns out to be a fairly workmanlike story.

[sovay]

It turns out to be a fairly workmanlike story.

As a suspense-game of hot potato, though, it is very effective.