Moving Finger, The

A very ordinary man who has a strange fascination with Jeopardy, named Howard Mitla is confronted by the bizarre sight of a human finger poking its way out of the drain in his apartment's bathroom sink. He tries to deny the reality of what is happening, but the solitary digit eventually proves to be infinitely long and multijointed, and capable of attacking him. Mitla burns it with a bottle of heavy-duty drain-cleaner, then chops it off with a pair of electric hedge trimmers. Soon, the police arrive, after Howard calls his neighbor a "bog-trotting Irishman", and making an enormous racket, and constantly swearing. When the police arrive, the officer they send in checks in on Howard, who is lying in a daze next to the toilet. He tells the officer, "If you have to go to the bathroom, I definitely suggest you hold it." and the toilet lid pops up. Howard, after cutting up the finger, starts thinking about the creature to which it was attatched. He realizes it surely had multiple digits and that there were several openings in an average bathroom, and an ominous sound is heard from the toilet. The story ends with the officer lifting the lid after Howard asks, "Final Jeopardy. How much do you want to wager?"

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