Lori Selke
Excerpt:
The call girl detective is searching for clues. She is in the bathroom, with a flashlight. She pulls three long hairs from the bathtub drain. Are they blonde? Brunette? Titian? There is a large walk-in closet in the call girl detective’s bedroom, opposite the king-size bed with its blue quilted comforter. Her mother stitched the comforter before she disappeared. She left it in a box under the Christmas tree. On the tag, there was written a clue: “It might be a quilt.” On one side of the closet hang the call girl detective’s disguises. Clown, taxi driver, slam poet, nurse, French maid, Russian flower vendor, co-ed, librarian. On the other side of the closet hang her work clothes. Mostly trenchcoats. At the back of the closet, there is a door. Behind the door, there is a staircase. The staircase leads down.
Bio:
Lori Selke thinks workshops like the Clarion West Writers Workshop are the bee's knees. She's been a member of the WisCon and Potlatch concoms, she writes both fiction and nonfiction, and she co-curates what might just be San Francisco's longest-running spoken word series. As a result of the latter, her bald head has appeared on Fox News.
Publications:
"Dead. Nude. Girls." Strange Horizons"The Dodo Factory," Asimov's"The Call Girl Detective," Spicy Slipstream Stories
Website:
www.loriselke.com
