Bullet on a Wire

Folks are busy at the production offices of Mort Downey Jr.'s talk show. A warehouse worker is preparing manifests for shipping. He needs the sign off of the producer, a voluble woman who's talking non-stop on the phone to someone named Harry. She signs the manifest without looking up as she talks about sexual surrogates, a woman crushed to death by her fat lover, and a fist fight on Geraldo Rivera's show. "Thank goodness he's been taking boxing lessons," she says. She's interrupted by the arrival of a uniformed woman with a nose ring. The woman opens a paper bag she's carrying and hands the producer what's inside. The horror is only beginning...

Story about a woman who lives among the poor and down and out in Chicago.

A young woman arrives in the Chicago suburbs and begins to suspect that something terrible has happened to her missing cousin, but soon realizes that her greatest fears don’t even begin to scratch the surface.