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Title: CoW Ep. 386: Encore! Cosmetic Procedures
Post by: Languorous Lass on January 26, 2021, 03:43:25 AM
Cast of Wonders 386: Encore! Cosmetic Procedures (https://www.castofwonders.org/2019/12/cast-of-wonders-386-encore-cosmetic-procedures/)

• Author: Desmond Warzel (https://www.castofwonders.org/people/desmond-warzel/)
• Narrator: Rish Outfield (https://www.castofwonders.org/people/rish-outfield/)
• Host: Graeme Dunlop (https://www.castofwonders.org/people/graeme-dunlop/)
• Audio Producers: Graeme Dunlop (https://www.castofwonders.org/people/graeme-dunlop/) and Jeremy Carter (http://www.castofwonders.org/people/jeremy-carter/)
• Artist: Alexis Goble (https://www.castofwonders.org/people/alexis-goble/)

"Cosmetic Procedures" originally appeared in the anthology It Came From Her Purse (https://www.wakefieldmahon.com/it-came-from-her-purse.html), edited by Georgia Middleton and Karen L. Newman, from Sam's Dot Publishing, published August 2011.
It was previously published in Cast of Wonders Episode 69 (https://www.castofwonders.org/2013/03/episode-69-cosmetic-procedures-by-desmond-warzel/), March 1, 2013.

Click here to listen to Episode 386 (http://traffic.libsyn.com/castofwonders/Wonders386.mp3)

When I became a private investigator, it wasn’t for excitement, or for money. The work is humdrum, and whatever noir romanticism the profession ever actually had is long gone (though I’ve got a raincoat, a fedora, and a dusty bottle of scotch in the closet, just in case they’re called for). As for money, there isn’t much–and I don’t need it anyway. I’m a dilettante, and utterly unashamed of it.

It was an ego boost, pure and simple. I suppose I just enjoyed the idea that, when some poor desperate soul was in dire straits, stretched to the breaking point, with nowhere to turn, I would be the one he’d call.

Well, now I’m sitting at my desk, unable to take my mind off the lower right-hand drawer, and the unique item therein, and I have no idea who I should call.

I am, however, extremely open to suggestions.

Tags:   Alexis Goble, cosmetics, crime, Desmond Warzel, encore, Fantasy, Graeme Dunlop, Horror, Jeremy Carter, noir, Rish Outfield, Young Adult fiction