Temporary Work
By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 1 of 1, complete
Word count (story only): 1209
[Saturday, 5 August, 2017, 1 p.m.]
:: LaQuinta is restless in her new living quarters, so she goes looking for work without her Surrey. Things become complicated fairly quickly. Part of the Unfair Trades arc in Mercedes, within the Polychrome Heroics universe. ::
LaQuinta stared around the interior of the converted schoolbus, called a ‘skoolie’ though that insulted both the bus’ origins and the education of anyone who repeated the term. She sniffed, surprised to smell cedar. Leaning close to the light-colored paint, she shook her head. Standing on the sofa, she brought her face close to the wooden strips on the ceiling and laughed.
When she stepped down, she quickly smoothed the cushion and checked the surface for dirt. The whole place, contained in a forty-foot schoolbus, was a bit larger than the motel room converted into emergency housing for earthquake refugees, felt very, very different.
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