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- Authors: Sarah Adler
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GRETCHEN ACORN IS A BULLSHIT ARTIST.
The talent for it runs in her family—her daddy’s a bullshit artist, as was
his daddy before him, and his before him. And so on, all the way back to
Fritz Eichorn, who scammed his way into first class on the ship that carried
him to the US by posing as a recently heartbroken Austrian count. But
while great-great-great-grandpa Fritz and most of his male descendants
gravitated toward the hasty brushstrokes of shell games and selling
landmarks to tourists, Gretchen has found her own, more sophisticated
medium.
No pun intended.
“Ah.” Gretchen presses two fingers to each of her temples. She winces
as if her mental call to the spirit realm has conjured nothing except a
headache. “I feel Ronald trying to be here with us, but the connection is
fragile. Too fragile to make anything out, I’m afraid.”
“It’s my aura, isn’t it?” The elderly woman across the table unclasps her
hands and sets them atop the plum brocade tablecloth. She still wears her
platinum and diamond wedding set, the swell of her arthritic knuckle the
only thing keeping the too-large rings in place. “I’ve been told before that
it’s a problem, but no matter how many Reiki experts I’ve consulted—”
“No, no,” Gretchen interrupts. “You have a beautiful aura, Mrs. Easterly.
The most gorgeous”—Pick a color, any color—“vermillion I’ve ever seen.
Don’t let anyone do a thing to it.”
The idea of some opportunistic asshole swindling a nice old lady like
Janice Easterly makes Gretchen’s jaw tense. Perhaps that seems
hypocritical given that she herself relies upon dishonesty to make her living
(and that she can’t even remember if vermillion is a shade of green or red).
But the difference is that Gretchen only takes people’s money if she’s
certain she can leave them better off than she found them. That’s the one
Rule that governs everything she does. Her singular guiding principle. It
transforms her work from a con into a business transaction, her morally
gray impulses into something mutually beneficial. That’s why she turns
away potential clients if she knows she won’t be able to provide what they
need, and why she’s building up to telling Mrs. Easterly that her telephone
line to the spirit world is currently generating nothing but a busy signal.
Her code of ethics may not win her a Nobel Peace Prize, but it’s been
something of a compass since Gretchen struck out on her own almost seven
years ago. She has the skills of her forefathers in her back pocket at all
times—her father made sure she could lie, cheat, and steal with the best of
them before she could even spell her own name—and it would be easy
enough to fill the rest of Mrs. Easterly’s half-hour session with the cheap
tricks that make up the bread and butter of most supposed spirit mediums
and psychics.
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