28th
Maggie Suwannakintho
What begins as a joke with some unsavory character at The Embers* turns into a three-year contract at White Clinic** which leads to one bad night with an ambassador from Jordan and a frenzied attack with a hotel ballpoint pen and a cleanup job that turns out to be way more complicated than anyone predicted. And of course Feddema Global, cleanup expert and important business associate of the Clinic, is called in to handle the disposal and the press releases and the loose ends. And as part of the arrangement Maggie enters into their Enforced Loyalty program and is assigned to Sal’s Fish House*** where she must provide services for visiting dignitaries, all of whom have elaborate and non-standard requests. And so maybe she’d like a little moment to herself, OK, while she’s sitting here flushing disinfectant through her privates, just five minutes where she can cry quietly without, you know, without some new pervert sticking his head through a hole in the floor and looking at her in her one solitary moment of vulnerability? I mean is that too much to ask?****
*A pirate tavern.
**A corporate brothel.
***A front for illegal activities but also a legitimate purveyor of excellent seafood.
****I’m doing a sort of Sub-Zero “spine rip” fatality on my novel. I think the end result will be much more flexible, due to its lack of spine.
I don’t think I’ve seen much better sales pitches for novels. I’m dying to to read it from the beginning.
