Catfighting for the Room

By Susan Alexander

I want this apartment, I need this apartment, and if I have to win a no-holds barred catfight against this blonde MILF to get it, that's exactly what I'm going to do!

Yes, she's older than me. Yes, she's taller than me. Yes, she's curvier than me. Yes, she's beautiful. But don't underestimate a starving college student who has a shot at her dream apartment. We're catfighting for the room!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Susan Alexander
• Release date: Apr 1, 2023
• ISBN: 9781005133641

Susan Alexander

Susan Alexander is a lifelong writer who has worked as a lawyer and law professor. She now focuses primarily on writing. Susan grew up in Chicago, where she attended public schools before going on to earn degrees in political science at Washington University in St Louis (AB with highest honors) and Northwestern University (MA). She then chose to work towards social justice through law at Harvard University and earned a law degree at Harvard Law School. Susan began her legal career as a law clerk to a U.S. district judge in Chicago (Julius J. Hoffman, who famously presided over the "Chicago 7" trial, but who also offered his law clerks valuable experience deciding important legal issues). Susan then garnered a Reginald Heber Smith Fellowship, working as a public interest lawyer for two years: First, at the Chicago Legal Aid Bureau's Appellate and Test Case Division; second, at the National Legal Program on Health Problems of the Poor, located at UCLA Law School. Susan continued her work as a public interest lawyer at the Legal Aid Society of San Diego and the National Institute for Consumer Justice, based at the University of Michigan Law School. While at Michigan, Susan began her teaching career, focusing on teaching law students legal analysis and writing. She later taught poverty law at the University of San Diego School of Law. She moved on to teaching legal analysis and writing for two years at IIt/Chicago-Kent College of Law and a total of four years at Northwestern University School of Law. Susan has served as an arbitrator since 1990 and has worked as an associate and a knowledgeable source on writing at three Chicago law firms. She has also created You Can Write Better, a consulting business that helps practicing lawyers sharpen their writing skills. She is a lifelong writer whose writing has appeared in a wide range of publications, including major newspapers like the San Francisco Chronicle, the Chicago Tribune, and the Chicago Sun-Times, as well as a number of professional journals like the Hastings Law Journal, the Buffalo Law Review, and the Cooley Law Review. Susan's novels, "A Quicker Blood" (2009) and "Jealous Mistress" (2011), have garnered high praise in customer reviews appearing online. Her short story, "Neglect," was a prizewinner in Chicago Lawyer magazine's first annual fiction contest. The protagonist in "Jealous Mistress" is loosely based on Susan, and the novel, a mystery, depicts her life as the mother of two young daughters in a North Shore suburb of Chicago who temporarily leaves her demanding legal career so she can spend more time with her young children. The mystery plot is, of course, total fiction. Susan launched a blog, Susan Just Writes, in 2012 and has added a new post about once a month since 2012. The posts include commentary on the passing scene, travel, politics, movies, books, and an array of other topics. Some recent posts: "A day without a drug commercial"; "Pockets!"; "The last straw(s)"; "High heels are killers"; "Of mice and chocolate"; "They're my blue jeans, and I'll wear them if I want to"; "Down and hot in Paris and London,";"Watching the movie 'Z': A tale of two Hoffmans"; "Let's lobby Congress to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act" Susan's new novel, "Red Diana," is a psychological thriller that explores themes like the desire for revenge, the burden of guilt, the tyranny of unethical lawyers and corrupt judges, the parent-child relationship, the shattering pain of loss, and the many routes survivors take to deal with their loss.

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This book is a work of fiction. No one was harmed in the writing of this book.

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Other Female Combat Stories by Susan Alexander:

The Great Beach Catfight Trap

Japanese Prison Catfight!

Amy Takes Her Bumps: A Female Erotic Wrestling Collection

Catfighting for the Room

I couldn’t believe my eyes as I read the roommate request: $600 a month in Greenland Hills! What was wrong with the place? The listing seemed normal enough - 26 year old woman looking for a female roommate, must be okay with her well-trained dog, responsible adult who isn’t out partying all night… nothing odd there.

I went to the bottom and started clicking through the pictures. It was a nice place - maybe a bit old, but well-maintained, open and airy. The kitchen was a little small, that was the worst thing I could find. Best of all, it was so close to campus I might be able to ride my bike to and from classes.

Had I really struck gold? I couldn’t afford not to go for it. I was putting myself through college picking up double shifts at Dunkin’ Donuts, and money was tight. My current roommate had just left to get married, and as much as I loved the place I was in now, there was no way I could swing the $900 a month rent by myself.

I emailed Blaire, the woman currently living there, almost signing it Your future roommate, Kelcie, before thinking better of it and just putting Kelcie. No, wait - Looking forward to hearing from you, Kelcie? I was already getting nervous. Just Kelcie.

Less than an hour later Blaire emailed me back with an invite to come over and discuss the place. I was trying not to get my hopes up - she noted in the message there was at least one other interested woman, and she wanted to meet me first.

But I figured this was a good sign - she wouldn’t invite me over just to tell me no, surely? I didn’t have work that night, so I went right over. The neighborhood was lovely, a mix of old apartment buildings, two or three story houses, and locally-owned businesses. I could just imagine myself going to the used bookstore, then the Indian place next door, then the adorable little bodega...

Of course, I had to actually rent the apartment first. I found the building and took the elevator up to the fourth floor, finding the door marked 23D and knocking. A short, curvy woman with pale skin and long red hair answered: Hi there! Are you Kelcie or Elena?

Uh, Kelcie. Who’s Elena?

Nice to meet you, she held her hand out.

I shook it: Nice to meet you, too.

Come on in.

Through the door I could see the apartment, just how it looked in the pictures. In fact, they must have been taken earlier in the day; I could see the same dishes from them still in the drying rack next to the kitchen sink.

I took a deep breath and followed Blaire inside, closing the door behind me. She motioned to a seating area with a big comfy couch and two chairs. I took the couch, and Blaire sat in the closest chair.

Did you find the place okay? she asked.

Yeah. Um, who’s Elena?

Oh, she’s the other lady interested in the place, she’s coming over too.

Why?

Well, I have to get to know you two, of course. I can’t just have someone move in and six weeks later I realize they’re slobs and leave food out or don’t clean up. You know.

Makes sense, I mumbled.

So, tell me about yourself. Where’s your family from?

Well, my dad is from Durango. My mother’s side of the family is kind of all over, but she’s fifth-generation Irish.

Mm-hmm, she nodded. What do you do for a living?

"I’m a college student. Well, I’m working my way through college, I’m a junior. Uh, I’m kid number six, so there wasn’t much left in the piggy bank to pay for me, so