Hot Flashes

Catalina McGregor is a hefty middle aged English professor who is living in fear that she will perish before she publishes. She is either a boat in search of a dock or a cat in search of a catalyst. She finds both in the form of Cody Kingfisher, an aging hipster, who has moved into the office next door to her at the small community college where she teaches. Over designer coffee and cheesecake, they become partners in crime in the excavation of Catalina's past. One by one, her decades are delved into, revealing their secrets and giving up their dead. This story is her dissertation, her crowning achievement and her highway shrine.