A Thing of Beauty by Lisa Samson

Author:Lisa Samson
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: ebook
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2014-09-30T16:00:00+00:00

After registering at the desk and inwardly thanking the Screen Actors Guild for my health coverage, I sit down, nursing my thigh, encircling it with my hands.

I look right at home with so many of the other inhabitants of the room. In fact, it looks pretty much like every emergency room scene you’ve ever seen in a movie. The same ragtag patients and their tagalong attendants. The smelly, the scared, the annoying, the quiet, the inappropriately loud, the cell phone talker and the pacer, those who are alone and those who wish they were, all present and accounted for.

When a woman about my age wearing powder-blue sweats and an Ocean City T-shirt snaps my picture with her smart phone, I realize it’s all over.

All the plans to beat Jessica to the punch, to plan a “free and fashionable” comeback, to travel to New York City and stay at the St. Regis, unravel like an unfettered braid. I’m still just Fiona Hume, fallen bad girl and general screwup. That’s what they’ll say.

And maybe they’re right.

Tempting though it is, I don’t ask her to refrain from sending it off to that monkey-faced lard-ass Perez Hilton or whatever acid-penning blogger she’s dispatching it to right now with a smug, superior grin stretching her closed red lips.

What would be the point?

If not her, someone else. I learned that lesson young.

My father will be snapped at the Baltimore-Washington Airport, various assumptions will be made and repeated as cosmic truth, and I’ll retreat once again into the noise and clutter that dangles and flutters in the place of my own making.

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