SLARVATHOffice of Off-World Correspondence

A quick blue ballpoint drawing on the blank back of a restaurant order ticket lying on a stainless steel counter, showing a creature with a long snout and a crown of spines wearing an apron and holding a pan
Medium — ballpoint
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On the back of a ticket

The one who runs the line. Back of a ticket, taken home.

It took about a minute and it happened between two tickets, and then it came down the counter to me the way everything comes down the counter.

The children drew what I am. This one has drawn what I do. I have an apron on and a pan in my hand and my snout is out over the pan, checking it, which is exactly where my snout goes and which I have never once seen from the outside.

Everything else anyone has made of me is on a wall or a window or the ground, where it belongs to the street. This one is in my coat pocket. I have had to decide where to keep it, and I have not decided.

Office annotationDepiction made on licensed premises during service, in ballpoint, on the reverse of a printed order. Not displayed. Retained by the Correspondent, who has retained nothing else. The likeness is not accurate. The apron is.