Blind Submission (2009)
“he began.“Thanks, Jackson,” I said.“Um, yes. Sure. You’re welcome.”“Okay,” I said, knowing that there was more. I looked up at him, waiting. The scent of his cologne (lush, expensive, but way too liberally applied) engulfed me. He was twenty years old, a fact Lucy had shared with all of us, and didn’t have enough facial hair to justify the razor burn on his smooth cheeks. He was wearing a silk shirt festooned with paisley patterns and black, tight-fitting designer jeans. He’d been working with ...us for three weeks and had worn jeans every day. There had not been a single mention or memo from Lucy regarding his attire in all that time. I wondered if it was because he was male or, likelier, she was waiting for someone else (me? Anna?) to blow the whistle on him. It was Craig who had dug Jackson’s résumé up from one of his mysterious files and called him in for an interview. Perhaps he’d been hired simply because he was male. On one of Lucy’s memos to Craig during the interview process, she had written simply, No more girls!!!!“I think she wants to talk to you about this,”MoreLess
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