Midnight in the City #2

Everyone was practicing their routines and she felt she’d lost something. She checked her handbag for two sets of keys, BlackBerry and a Russian doll full of makeup. Her wallet and its credit cards were in the pocket of her leather jacket, the cabinets had all the pills in their places. Also, her collection of the Journal of the American Dental Association was intact. Finally, before passing out from all the searching, she went through her wine-stained teeth with her tongue and found an open cavity.

She e-mailed her assistant for an appointment.