When I got back home, I was tired. I went up to my room and crashed.
It was five o'clock when my mother burst into my room.
"Joe!" she said. "The TV! Turn it on!"
I woke up confused, but I grabbed the remote and turned on the television in my room. At Mom's ORDER, I turned on a local newscast.
" .. by one of her patients," said Lonnie Ling, a local reporter. The picture changed, and there was Dr. Von Hauser with another doctor, an older woman. Ling's voiceover continued.
"According to Dr. Von Hauser's docter, this tail was not on the psychiatrist's backside at her last examination, which was only last week."
"This was done to me by Joe, one of my patients. He's acquired terrible, awful powers. He turned me completely into a poodle at first, and then made me get a check-up and shots at the vet's, and had my hair shaved and permed like this!"
"Asked what she intended to do, Dr. Von Hausen said .. "
I didn't hear the rest, but noticed my mother looking at me as if she was about to freak out completely.