Buzz Hummer dispatches two men down a shadowy hallway where odd questions, lost documents, and alarming outcomes turn a simple drink into something far darker.
In About Knobbling, a whimsical and offbeat story, Buzz Hummer draws readers into a weird world of enigmas, nonsense, and growing dread. The tale follows two gentlemen whose tranquil evening takes a shocking turn. Bonis stops at his club for a nightcap and runs into his excitable friend Smythers, who is consumed by what seems an unsolvable dilemma. Smythers describes the issue as something that is “knobbling” at him. What first appears to be yet another dramatic complaint soon becomes far more serious when he tries to drag Bonis into finding a solution.
Before Bonis can grasp what his friend truly wants, a mysterious figure interrupts them. They are led through a strange corridor and eventually brought before the Patron, an enigmatic individual who appears to know an unsettling amount about them. The Patron declares that Smythers’ problem can be fixed, but his records are incomplete, and the right remedy cannot be identified until Smythers and Bonis supply the missing details. This sets the two men on a peculiar mission whose logic grows increasingly hard to predict.
Their attempts to meet the Patron’s demands are mostly overseen by his assistant, Proctor, whose menacing presence lends a darker tone to the unfolding absurdity. Questions and requests that seem irrelevant can turn out to be unexpectedly critical, and failing to provide the needed information carries real repercussions. About Knobbling builds its mystery around the friction between apparently senseless procedures and the disturbing seriousness with which they are enforced.
As Smythers and Bonis navigate the Patron’s bizarre process, hunting for missing data becomes an adventure controlled by rules that neither man fully understands and cannot safely ignore. The story blends comic dialogue, surreal mystery, and growing tension, contrasting Smythers’ theatrical nature with Bonis’ mounting worry as events grow stranger with each new development.
Buzz Hummer constructs About Knobbling around a deliberately odd central riddle: what exactly does it mean to be knobbling, and can Smythers ever escape it? Through mysterious corridors, questionable records, eccentric personalities, and increasingly weighty demands, the story keeps its answer tantalizingly out of reach. It turns bureaucracy, incomplete information, and an ill-defined personal crisis into the foundation of an offbeat adventure where absurdity and menace constantly intertwine.
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