Never Neck at Niagara [Short Story] by Edie Claire

Author:Edie Claire
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2011-02-10T16:00:00+00:00

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For a regular churchgoer like Leigh, sleeping in on vacation Sundays was a real treat, and being in a hotel on someone else's expense account was icing on the cake. She could doze the morning away with preordered blueberry muffins and tea waiting at her bedside, thinking of how nice it was that she had "forgotten" to bring along any work. Being a partner in her own ad agency had its benefits, but feeling constantly guilty about leaving work undone was a pesky disadvantage, and putting a few hundred miles between herself and the unwritten copy was the only cure.

Having been awakened early by hunger, she dove happily into a large muffin. Room service was expensive, of course, and her scrupulously honest public-servant husband would be sure to pay for every morsel she ate out of his own pocket rather than the taxpayers', but it was still worth it. She collected a few crumbs from off the bed sheets and reached for the morning paper to help break the next batch's fall. Then she saw the small headline in the lower right hand corner, and her appetite dissolved.

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