“Look, I know you are
trying, all well and good, to plan a party here, but I think this needs a bit
of an edge, don’t you think?  Hot.  Heat of LA sort of thing, what do you think?”  He asked, straightening out his dark crimson
tie, his green eyes lit up as he saw her. 
He was sinfully handsome and perfectly dressed; his hair tussled, but
his demeanor commanding.

            “And you’d be?” He
grinned, his cotton candy lips curling to the left.

            “Kinnetic Ad Agency, a
new division of VanGuard.  I’m Brian
Kinney.” 

*****

            Alice
paced the room; she was waiting as her editor read her article.  She’d been working hard on it, and with Dana
playing so well lately it was bound to make waves.  It had been weird, writing about Dana,
but she’d enjoyed being able to really get to know her subject.

            “Pieszecki!”  He bellowed, she cringed, hating when he yelled.

            “Sit down…”  He said, his voice domineering, she sat.

            “I like it, run with
it.  Get someone to do a layout of Ms.
Fairbanks and we’ll jog with it.  If I like the shots, we might make it a cover
story.”  Alice
smiled brightly, the cover, yes!

            “Just get me something
hot for the cover, and you’re in Alice.  Shoot for the beginning of next month.”  He said with much more conviction that
before.

            “Thanks.”  Alice
walked out and thought she knew just the person to do that photo layout.

*****

            Jenny
sat at her computer and typed furiously her face a mask of concentration as the
words poured from her mind and onto the proverbial page. 

            She was close to
finishing her book, it wasn’t great, but it was very good.  Her blue eyes darting up and down reading and
rereading as she took a sort moment to breath. 
She scratched her nose, feeling a sneeze coming on.  Her face contorted and she was just about to
sneeze.

            “Bless you…” Came a
voice from the door, just as Jenny
sneezed, and then laughed, looking up from her work and seeing someone at the
door.

            “Hey Tim,
come on in.”  Tim
timidly stepped into the apartment, he had two cups of coffee and handed one to
her.  She took the warm cup and held it
on both hands.