Monique herself appeared forty-seven minutes later, though I felt no time pass. She is a woman of indeterminate age—perhaps thirty, perhaps seventy. Her accent shifts from Caribbean to Corsican to Korean mid-sentence, though she claims she has never left a 12-block radius of the spa.
Published: October 26, 2023
For three days afterward, I could not remember my own middle name. But I also could not remember the sound of my email inbox. The trade felt fair.