"Playing Games" by Elaine Togneri, in Noir at the Salad Bar, edited by Verena Rose, Harriette Sacker, and Shawn Reilly Simmons, Level Best Books, 2017
When Mai was thirteen she was kidnapped from the docks in VIetman. For the last three years she has been a slave, working long hours in the kitchen of a Chinese restaurant in the United States, sleeping six in a room. She dreams of escaping, but caan that ever happen?
Noir at the Salad Bar is what the title of this book promises. Ms. Togneri brings the noir very well.