Daddykins
1 It was a few days into the year 3000 and I sat in my office on 59th St, waiting for either money or a girl to fall into my lap. As it happened, I got both. Unlike the fancy qualifications hanging on my wall, the girl wasn't a hologram. She looked like she belonged more to the age of telegrams. She wore a thick ermine coat and a scarf with a couple of fox heads at the end. 'I'm here about Daddykins ' she said. ' Daddykins ?' 'My father.' 'I see' I said, 'and how can I help Daddykins ?' 'He's looking for a nemesis.' I sighed and picked up a remote. Pointing it at the wall, I projected an image of a notice, headed NEMESIS WANTED. The notice read: "Gentleman villain seeks nemesis for the usual mayhem." It was signed "Mortimer Wilkins". 'I don't suppose he'd be responsible for this, would he?' 'That's daddy' she said, without much enthusiasm. 'I got it in m...