Literature
A Wandering Story [DRAFT 2012 07 07]
NELLY
[Help wanted ad for a field research assistant]
Even Beatrice, my best friend and partner-in-crime, wouldn't take the job.
"I love you darling, as always," she replied to my latest entreaty, "But do you realize what would happen if we set loose on the countryside? We would never get any work done, subsequently lose our jobs, and become beggars or prostitutes. And when things got really bad, I would be forced to cannibalize you." She was right, of course. We could never work together. Besides, she was now as a nurse under a handsome doctor whom, she assured me, would soon be her f