Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Short Story Characters

Neil Hollman: men's room attendant at a nice restaurant
-gets accused of making racist comments towards an important business executive
-can't afford both Netflix and heating, has to make a choice

Darren Bowsher: runs a laundromat that has been in his family for decades
-business is slow, he is being blamed by his father
-while trying to stop a fight between two guys fighting over detergent, gets hit in the face

Lance Wachtel: suave French art thief
-no one in the black market cares enough about art for him to make a living
-his detective mom vows to find whoever is stealing all of the art

Carl Strandberg: Vice President of the U.S.
-beats the president in a game of risk and thinks he should be put in charge of the war in Afghanistan but no one listens to him
-his dad wants to kill the president so that his son will finally be important

Erika Merrit: sister of a slave owner in Georgia/secret abolitionist
-her brother Ricky (slave owner) kills their father because he believes that he is the one who is helping the slaves escape
-one of the slaves threatens to tell Ricky about her secret life if he isn't the next to be freed

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