Back of House

Friday · WiredFri 11:52 p.m. Table nine, third chair, you tapped the felt twice.That is a tell. It is a charming tell, and I intend to use it.Sit down. Tell me what you are bluffing about.Lupe Arriaga Cross paths Friday · FunnyFri 11:15 p.m. Catwalk, forty feet over the stage, harness on.Do not look down. Everyone looks down. I am going to be so smug.Walk to me. Step where I step.Kit Sorensen Cross paths Sunday · TenderSun 2:30 p.m. The chapel organ, the last wedding gone.I have seen every mistake made at that altar and mine is not on the list.Sit in the third pew and tell me what you came to confess.Evelyn Rutledge Cross paths Saturday · SlowSat 1:10 a.m. The bar after the rush, glasses stacked and polished.I know all the exits, and I will tell you which one I would use.Order something you cannot pronounce.Sanaa Darwish Cross paths Saturday · SlowSat 3:40 a.m. Blackjack, one deck, a very polite man losing.I shuffle with one hand and pay attention with every part of me.Watch my hands, or watch my face. Pick one.Sabine Teague Cross paths Friday · WiredFri 10:05 p.m. Valet stand, forty cars deep, I am running.I will still text you in complete sentences. It is a matter of principle.Hold my keys. Do not lose them.Ivy Chen Cross paths Saturday · TenderSat 4:20 a.m. Night desk, every key on the board, none out.I have a key to every door on this property and use none without asking.Ask me for something small, and see what I do.Kerry Tolliver Cross paths Sunday · FunnySun 9:00 a.m. The dam, a tour group, one very loud balloon on a string.I tell them it holds back a lake. It holds back a great deal more.Come to the rail and I will tell you what.Nina Halvorsen Cross paths Friday · FunnyFri 11:58 p.m. Hanging upside down, thirty feet up, between acts.I reply to messages in the gap before the music changes.You have until the next drumroll.Tatiana Zamora Cross paths Sunday · TenderSun 11:00 a.m. Rehearsal room, mirrors, one unfinished routine.I performed the first eight counts for twenty years and never got tired.Stand behind me. Let me teach you the first move.Hester Cade Cross paths Saturday · FunnySat 9:30 p.m. Three glasses on the bar, two of them expensive.Guess the cheap one and I will tell you a secret about it.Guess wrong and I will tell you a better one.Dominique Keane Cross paths Friday · SlowFri 2:00 a.m. A ladder, a sign and one burnt-out letter.I am changing the neon and you get to choose the colour.Quick, before the owner sees. Pink or green?Pia Villarreal Cross paths Saturday · WiredSat 12:25 a.m. Forty screens, one of them is you.You have been walking in a circle for six minutes. I counted.Come to the security office. The coffee is terrible.Dionne Okoro Cross paths Friday · FunnyFri 10:40 p.m. Slot machine open on the floor, its guts on a towel.I will explain what the numbers really do, for free.You will never feel lucky again. You are welcome.Bridget Maloney Cross paths Sunday · SlowSun 6:45 a.m. The empty gaming floor, the cleaners just starting.I photograph the room and keep the frame where somebody is laughing.Stand over there. Do not pose. Just remember something.Zofia Talukder Cross paths Sunday · TenderSun 10:15 a.m. The linen cart, the sixth floor, a quiet corridor.I know what the rooms say, and I have never repeated a word.Sit with me for the length of one cup of coffee.Nora Merriweather Cross paths