Midnight Baby
by Wendy Hornsby
In Los Angeles making a documentary about upscale day cares, Maggie
MacGowen visits MacArthur Park to get contrasting footage of the
pubescent prostitutes that populate its dark corners. There she meets
Pisces, a fourteen-year-old hooker with manners that don’t match her
profession. As they bond over a plate of pastrami, Maggie talks her into
spending the night in a shelter. But Pisces comes with baggage: a
nine-year-old hoodlum named Sly. Maggie takes them both to a convent,
where they are fed, bathed, and tucked into bed, just like normal
children. The next day, Pisces is dead, her throat slashed by an unknown
hand. The Los Angeles Police Department has
little time for murdered hookers, so it falls to Maggie to find the
killer. The keys to the case are the young girl’s manners, and the fact
that she died with her virginity intact.
MacGowen visits MacArthur Park to get contrasting footage of the
pubescent prostitutes that populate its dark corners. There she meets
Pisces, a fourteen-year-old hooker with manners that don’t match her
profession. As they bond over a plate of pastrami, Maggie talks her into
spending the night in a shelter. But Pisces comes with baggage: a
nine-year-old hoodlum named Sly. Maggie takes them both to a convent,
where they are fed, bathed, and tucked into bed, just like normal
children. The next day, Pisces is dead, her throat slashed by an unknown
hand. The Los Angeles Police Department has
little time for murdered hookers, so it falls to Maggie to find the
killer. The keys to the case are the young girl’s manners, and the fact
that she died with her virginity intact.