Happy Medium

by Sarah Adler

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.

Gretchen speaks with authority, as if she didn’t only learn about this herself a couple days ago.

“I can’t know what it was like for you, why you’ve made the choices you have. But I want to understand. If you’re ever ready to tell me.”