Asaro, Catherine - Fortune and Misfortune

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Lisa Goldstein: Fortune and Misfortune
First appeared in Asimov’s Science
Fiction, May 1997. Nominated for Best
Short Story.
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This is my story, but first I have to tell
you about Jessie.
Jessie and I met at an audition. My agent
had told me they were looking for someone
to play a contemporary high school kid so
I dressed the part–torn baggy jeans, white
T-shirt, red flannel shirt tied around my
waist.
I’d been waiting for about five minutes
when Jessie walked in and gave her name to
the receptionist. She wore one of those
dress-for-success costumes that make women
look like clowns–skirt and jacket of
bright primary colors (hers were red), big
buttons down the front, hugely padded
shoulders. She looked at me and then down
at herself and laughed and grimaced at the
same time. It was an oddly endearing
expression, the gesture of someone who
knows how to poke fun at herself.
"You’re so clever," she said. She glanced
at her outfit again. "I’ve probably blown
it already."
She looked as if she wanted to talk
further, but just then the receptionist
called her name. I felt annoyed–I’d been
waiting longer than she had, though I knew
that that had nothing to do with
Hollywood’s pecking order. She was
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closeted with the casting people for about
ten minutes. When she came out she looked
at me, held her palms up and shrugged
elaborately. Her gesture said, clearly as
words, I have no idea whether I made it or
not.
I didn’t think about her until the next
cattle call, when I saw her again. She was
wearing the same clothes–I wondered if it
was the only decent outfit she owned. I
was reading a magazine, but she sat down
next to me anyway.
"Did you get called back for that high
school thing?" she asked.
"No," I said.
"Neither did I. I’m Jessie."
"I’m Pam."
The receptionist called my name then. I
felt a rush of pleasure at being called
first–this woman wasn’t all that far above
me after all. "Listen," she said as I
stood up. "If I get called next, wait for
me and we’ll go to lunch. I don’t know too
many people in this town."
"Okay," I said.
She did get called next. I waited, and
when she came out she offered to drive us
to a coffee shop in Westwood.
I had already pegged her as someone very
much like myself, just barely getting by
on bit parts and commercials and
waitressing jobs. So I was surprised to
see her walk up to a white BMW and turn
off the car alarm. She must have noticed
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