[from Wall Street Noir, edited by Peter Spiegelman Akashic Books June 2007]


And the harlots will go into the kingdom of god before you: Matthew 21:31


Wall Street, New York, Monday, February 28, 2005:-

Magnus McKay, alpha male, writes: Lalita, teelak - that does mean “darling” in Thai, right? - I miss you. I know this sounds ridiculous, but those two short moments we spent together have touched something inside of me. I’m going to bring you here as soon as possible, if I can’t find an excuse to visit Thailand next week (I’m working on it). Will you wait for me? Magnus.

He sits back in his executive chair to rub his jaw, then he stands up to look down on the ants bundled up against the cold on The Street.

He is not officially the senior partner of Weisman, Constant and Draper, so they had to give him the second corner office. Nevertheless, here we have power expressed through space: seven hundred square feet, two sets of windows. He’d chosen the crimson trimmings to go with his famous suspenders, the rest he’d left to the interior designer.

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