Now You See Her
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“Red Hat? A communist organization?”
“Try spunky women who speak their mind. Also, Frank, a social life to move from a back burner to the front. Who knows, maybe a new flame …” Though the Hong Kong/Cairo postcard man still hasn’t called.
“I’m thinking flames too, Reggie, back and front burners, restaurant kitchens. The big heat.”
“That’s where I want to be, Frank, in the heat.”
He blinks. I blink back. Then we laugh.
References
The author wishes to acknowledge the use of the following sources:
Bunting, Bainbridge. Houses of Boston’s Back Bay: An Architectural History, 1840–1917. 1967.
Gross, Kim Johnson, and Jeff Stone. Dress Smart Women: Wardrobes That Win in the Workplace. 2002.
Howe, Helen. The Gentle Americans, 1864–1960. 1965.
Howell, William Dean. The Rise of Silas Lapham. 1885.
Mergen, Bernard. Snow in America. 1997.
O’Connor, Thomas H. The Hub: Boston Past and Present. 2001.
Pinsky, Robert, editor and translator. The “Inferno” of Dante. 1994.
About the Author
Cecelia Tishy, a Pittsburgh native who has also lived in West Palm Beach, Florida, and Fairmont, West Virginia, made her home in Boston, Massachusetts, for twenty years. She left in 1987 to relocate to Nashville, Tennessee, with her husband, Bill, and two daughters. When she isn’t writing crowd-pleasing mysteries, she is professor of American Literature at Vanderbilt University. She has also written, under the name Cecelia Tichi, several nonfiction works on such diverse subjects as country music and muckraking in America.