Is It Murder To Evict a Theif?

Coriander has three minds: Ham the dancer, Dutch the father, and Mouse the refugee. Every Thursday night they go to therapy so the headmates can process being trapped in the wrong body: instead of Mouse’s healthy body, they woke up in Ham’s injured one, a mistake that means Ham will never dance again. The pain of losing a vocation is something their therapist, Cadence Sung, knows from experience. She was a celebrity psychologist before a leaked theory made her a laughing stock.

When a stranger turns up wearing Mouse’s missing body, Cade sees a chance for redemption. If she violates her client’s privacy and breaks a zillion rules, she can prove she was right all along. For Coriander, the stranger’s arrival raises questions: who is in Mouse’s body, is it murder to evict a thief, and would they kill if it meant Ham could dance again?

third draft

BREAKFAST

with

NARCISSUS

C. Neil Warner