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Winter/Spring 2015
“I guess it had to happen eventually,” she says.
She’s out of focus, her phone’s camera jerking as she walks, and still her smudged-mascara eyes look bright and hard. Behind her, the dark blur of the street is streaked with neon signs and the impassive faces of people turning to stare at her – this orange-haired woman ranting to herself on a Los Angeles sidewalk.
She laughs, a harsh angry sound, baring her teeth. “What’s it been, five months? Who called it, guys?” Her long earrings swing wildly against her neck as she comes to a stop. “My name is Lydia Bennet, and I just got fired.”