Literary Default Roils Markets
Wellington Leg: the towne is suspending hot air balloon rides after a consortium of banks seized all the hot air in the Leg, sources confide. Officials from the Office of the Exchequer were up in the air after rejecting fulminating pot boilers as collateral against Wellington Leg’s ballooning debt. Many of the works submitted to the Finance Committee were regarded as turgid; several were stained with turnip juice and at least one manuscript was written in Latin. “I suspect that some of the Roman soldiers got into the act,” Said Prudentia Chalfont-Smythe. Both the Vecisima Claudia and Decima Fulminata are in winter quarters near Costco on the River Wa.
Under Assistant West Coast Promo man Achille of Narn warned that Wellington Leg may face foreclosure after the rejection letters are formalized and sealed with a kiss. A new flurry of new work from the forty third earl is probably too little too late, Achille asserts.
In a related matter Eugenia Phaeton, seven year old hedge fund manager, will not be taking the top job at Citigroup. Her fund, Big Scary Things, now has a significant interest in Merrill Lynch, Lloyds Bank and our own WL S&L. Eugenia and her classmates are on a field trip near Gastropod Alley where they plan to study the bylaws of the Mystery Writers of America. Eugenia’s sixty percent stake in local publisher Wellington Leg Premier may exclude her work from consideration for an Edgar award. Concetta Comedia della Arta reporting.