“We’re a little early. Should we come back and be shocked at nine?”
From Chapter 4, “Who Wrote This Thing?,” of The Marriage Contract, 2027, which reads the law of marriage as the prenup every married couple already has.
A 1930s hotel room. A bored blonde woman and a man in an undershirt play cards on the bed. In the open doorway a photographer and a detective wait politely, one of them looking at a pocket watch.
