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CHAPTER 1

Kiki

MY BEDAZZLED shoe stepped with a wet thuck onto the carpet

I didn’t need to look down to know that the offending liquid was barf Working in a casino, you get good at identifying textures through the soles of your shoe There are ones for cigarettes, ones for lost jewelry, the aforementioned vomit, alcohol, so enough — which, mercifully, I have not — you can even start to tell different types of drinks as they soak into the three-pile shag

I added to the mental tally in my head This would be… hmmm… yes, the fourth time I’d stepped in vomit today For the record, today’s additional tallies: fifteen ti, so maybe an extra point — and five times in blood I chalked the last up to the fact that a fraternity had rolled through on their spring fling, or whatever kids who go to college call vacations There had been one solid fight in the middle of the casino floor, s if not a s, the whole thing had been set to rest and I’d been stuck cleaning up after their mess

Cleaning up after rimace as I knelt down to take a swipe at the puddle with a handful of napkins That could be the title of h, let’s be honest, people don’t exactly read memoirs about cocktail waitresses

As I didthe late-shift cleaners’ jobs that much easier, I felt a swipe at my ass

“Hey!” I said, jerking up and swiveling to look for said grabber

He’d already disappeared back into the crowd

“Fuck you,” I

If I really cared, I could go back through the security cauy, but it wasn’t worth it — the casino wouldn’t ban him, and I’d have wasted an hour to find out what I already knew — men, especially drunk as, are shitty