THE KING ATLASBetaA WORLD BETWEEN STORIESSingle-book characters / Named cast
8 named character entries recorded in L.T.’s Theory of Pets. Open a snippet for the book’s wording.
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Possible aliases: Mrs. DeWitt, Lulubelle, Lulubelle Simms
The police call this killer the Axe Man. As I write this, the Axe Man has not been captured. Nor has he killed again; if Cynthia Lulubelle Simms DeWitt was the Axe Man's sixth victim, she was also his last, at least so far.
She loved Frank, you see, and Frank loved her. They were like Romeo and Juliet or Rocky and Adrian. "Frank would come to her chair while we were watching TV, lie down on the floor beside her, and put his muzzle on her shoe.
My wife had invited Holly, who had been divorced almost two years, so the boys and the girls would balance up. I'm sure that's all it was, because Roslyn never liked L.T. DeWitt.
Possible aliases: L.T
… giving his eyes a few of those patented L.T. DeWitt rolls. Then he'd tell them the P.S. she'd tacked on the note. " 'I have taken Frank with me and left Screwlucy for you. I thought this would probably be the way you'd want it. Love, Lulu.' " If the …
"Meanwhile, there's the cat. Her name was Lucy to start with, but Lulubelle hated the way she acted so much that she started calling her Screwlucy, and it kind of stuck. Lucy wasn't nuts, though, she only wanted to be loved.
"Mrs. Simms says we have to consider her as one dead," L.T. said, and then he began to bawl. I was so shocked I nearly ran off the goddam road.
I'm sure that's all it was, because Roslyn never liked L.T. DeWitt. Most people do, most people take to him like hands take to warm water, but Roslyn has never been most people.
The police call this killer the Axe Man. As I write this, the Axe Man has not been captured. Nor has he killed again; if Cynthia Lulubelle Simms DeWitt was the Axe Man's sixth victim, she was also his last, at least so far.