What’s Love Got To Do With It?

Wednesday

Mum can I call you back? I’m on the streetcar and….

It’s urgent! I need to go shopping. I need a…did she really say candelabra? Amy disengages quickly, mutes the volume and ignores the seeping glow that tells her another call is coming in (repetition is Esther’s pattern). She’s wrong this time, though.

This is Marcia, the nurse from Major West. (Esther, titillated by the sign on the wall beside the “spa”: Major! A military man! Do you think he’s English too? He sounds English, doesn’t he? The shower-head graphic is uncannily reminiscent of a man in a pith helmet; Major West is the...

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