Waste

By Annalisa Conti

This is the fourteenth episode of THE W SERIES, a collection of short stories.

The view from the Brooklyn Bridge is just unique. It makes you evaluate your superhero life from a much deeper perspective. Or higher, rather than deeper.

Aka, “How to climb ten floors of a skyscraper from the outside in ten simple moves”. #Workout

• Language: English
• Publisher: Annalisa Conti
• Release date: Sep 15, 2019
• ISBN: 9781732690943

Annalisa Conti

Annalisa Conti lives and writes in New York City, where she has been spending the last few years of her life. She is a woman who writes about women, real human beings facing drama and challenges, finding happiness and rewards, succeeding and failing. Normal people. If you like Jane Austen for her honest humor, Gillian Flynn for her descent into human darkness, and Elena Ferrante for her focus on storytelling, you will find Annalisa’s tales wildly entertaining. She recently published her third novel, NINE. It is a modern tale on motherhood, a unique story about pregnancy, its hidden fears, and its untold truths. Her second novel, AFRICA, was an Amazon Kindle #1 in its category. Reviewers say it is a “fascinating” “astonishing” story of a life-changing journey to the end of the world, “powerful and dramatic, and well integrated into this incredible “decorum””. Annalisa is also the author of ALL THE PEOPLE, a novel built around a woman’s secrets. Reviewers say “you cannot put it down”, it is “capturing reader’s attention since the very first lines”, and it has a “very deep and accurate psychological perspective”. She publishes quarterly episodes in the collection of short stories THE W SERIES, which describe the world of W, a superhero like no other. Reviewers say it is "a classic action story but somehow very different from anything else", with a "writing style packed of action and visual clues as if it was taken right out of a Marvel comic strip". The first ten episodes of THE W SERIES have been collected in W IS FOR WONDER.

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Copyright © 2019 Annalisa Conti

Cover art by Valeria Frustaci, 2019

All rights reserved.

Published by AEC Publishing LLC in New York

www.annalisaconti.com

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Acknowledgements

To Emmanuel, who always believes in me.

Waste

Sitting on one of my favorite places in the city, the top of the Brooklyn Bridge, my eyes roam in the darkness. The car engine and honking noises coming up from the street are a soft background for my thoughts, accompanied by the lost sound of Chief Logan’s voice: Lorna Jones is the reason why things remain hidden. Whatever she’s doing, it allows her to sell her supplies and meals to public schools all over the State of New York at half her competitors’ prices, and keep her company profitable. Whatever she’s doing, it’s shady enough to involve people high up, including the Mayor, whose role must go beyond the one of mere lover. Or whatever they’re doing when they meet in small hotels in the middle of the night. It must also be shady enough to justify an otherwise unexplained connection with a hospital waste recycler. Otherwise, why would driver exchanges happen at night, in the safety of Randall’s Island’s nothingness? What are they hiding? Sometimes