The Weight of the Friction at the Stainless Sill
CHAPTER 1: THE WINDOW FRACTION The high-frequency chime of the drive-through car-detection loop bit into Maya’s headset for the forty-sixth time that hour, immediately followed by the wet, heavy slap of a torso throwing itself across the stainless steel prep counter. The air inside the kitchen was thick with the desaturated odor of scorched vegetable…