2014-03-16

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SONG STORY CHALLENGE: "The Working Girl Affair"


A pretty ginger-haired Mary Katherine Houlihan stood outside the entrance to the storefront diner, dressed in her neatly pressed grey uniform. She was tapping her foot in annoyance though it made little difference as her work shoes had thick rubber soles to help cushion her feet and made no sound.


Though she called them her ‘old lady’ shoes, they helped keep her tired dogs from aching after a ten hour shift of waiting and bussing tables at her job.


It was seven a.m. and the place should have been open already, and Mary Kate apologized to the clientele who showed up to eat or get a cup of coffee, but had to be turned away. Most of them understood as they were used to things running late here at Klingman’s New York Diner.

Somehow the business was successful inspite of that fact...


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Workin' It - Song Story


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In a room full of beautiful people, it was an accomplishment to draw the attention of more than a handful of them.  As she came down the stairs into a party plentifully supplied with the aforementioned folk, the blonde woman was a knockout in more ways than one.  For the man she left upstairs the phrase would take on new meaning when he awoke from a nearly lethal dose of tranquilizing serum used to spike his martini.

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