trans=demic

hormone blockers and low dose HRT since college. Having come out as trans, she accelerated her HRT,
increasing the estrogen and adding progesterone, and her boobs and butt blossomed. She’d scheduled
FFS and boob implants three times, but she’d cancelled three times because Josh demanded her time
and attention on his deals, and he was afraid a fully transitioned Sam might spook the clients.
So she’d hidden her budding breasts and her broadened butt beneath men’s shirts and trousers and
concealed her femininizing persona behind a blisteringly sarcastic, profane and aggressive demeanor.
Everyone respected Sam as a demon for details and a demanding deal runner, whose Time, Task and
Responsibility charts updated twice daily and identified the laggards ruthlessly for shaming.
But now it was K&K that was delaying the deal, but before anyone could object, Sam photoshopped
Josh’s missing signatures, and emailed the forty five documents comprising the closing documents to a
list of twenty recipients . Then she entered her eighteenth hour of billable time for the day and shut
down her computer.

K&K’s offices were empty and dark as she walked through corridors of K&K’s 45 th floor office, motion
detection lights flickered on and off the office was almost eerie devoid of the daytime bustle of staff,
lawyers and clients As she walked by the security desk, Mario the front desk guard looked up from his
phone and smiled.
“¿Otro medio día, abogado? Another half day, counselor?”
Como de costumbre, apago las luces de la oficina, As usual, I turn out the office lights.”
Sam practiced her college Spanish at every opportunity. Like Sam’s native Chinese, it provided little
benefit at the office, but unlike Chinese, it paid huge dividends on the dating apps.
Sam walked past tottering drunks pouring into and spilling out of the bars of LA Live, the scattered
homeless encampments on Figueroa, to the nearby condo which Samatha had already infused with her
feminine tastes: Pre Raphaelite Prints on the walls, a frilly quilt, plush toys and satin pillow cases on the
bed, and red roses in the vases.