Chapter 29: Rudi Shaves Off His Beard and Reality Continues to SuckStanding shirtless at the sink, Rudi lathered shaving cream over his trimmed red beard. He hadn’t shaved in two months. The beard had comforted him. Every time he’d seen his face in the mirror in the morning, he’d known he was real. That he was not in some parallel universe.
But it was time for the beard to go. Some of his subscribers would certainly be disappointed. They’d recently started calling him Rudi the Red. He had a good lumberjack look going for him. Too bad. He missed his baby-smooth face.
As he carefully shaved his cheeks and chin, Rudi glanced at the doorway behind him in the mirror from time to time. Libby wasn’t there. She hadn’t come back. She wouldn’t, he was fairly certain of that. Maybe he’d truly put t
