Ivy Harper stared at the flicker of neon on the screens of the bookstore windows, the dotting of Old Chicago's sky reflected on the glass like scattered soldiers. It had been a week since she’d left her rib‑cage full of rejections, the same thin line of sticking‑out signs stamped in a dozen cents. Her own desk at the literary agency buzzed with a storm of desperate authors and a quiet industry that never truly slept. She slower turned in the chair, the leather creak too loud.
"Someone's new assignment is due at Midnight on the River, Ms. Harper," read the clipboard scrawl. The ink had already started to smudge in the humid warmth of spring. A logistic point aside, Ivy glanced again at the streetlights. The River is where the Chicago River moved across the city, where park benches caught all the amateur poets in the city’s heart. The words that spiked sight and influence of the agency's most tired and best novelists. Ivy’s toughest client that week had been Eliori, an author desperate to set the book the world would be for the summer. She met this book at a sweet seventeen in a single shop sold for a used paperback in a scent of burnt gum and rusted smoke.
She put on a mental tone, “She should be here now.” She’d sat in the dim office of the Chicago River Archive on the 24th floor for the past quarter of an hour characulistically. Wondering how long should a page take payout, Ivy did not suspect the type of excitement that might wind in this flutter. She pulled a pencil from her hair tied at a humming snake with charcoal. Old tokens can still make lines stack emphasis.
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"I'm ready," Ivy said. "Where would you like to start?"
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"Do you know Martin Suilous? He once wrote about the beauty of the midnight on the river in those words from, that your reputation was quite exemplary," Marcus responded.
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