"Seek Ye Whore"

Yvette Tan, author of "Chimaera" from PGS4, and guest-editor for the Special PGS Halloween Issue, has a story out in Rogue Magazine's July Anniversary issue: "Seek Ye Whore". It's now available at all leading bookstores. An excerpt:

“She's hot,” he exclaimed before he could stop himself.

“Isn't she?” Donovan agreed. “She's perfect.”

“How did you get her to marry you?” Foster asked. “No offense Don, but she seems way out of your league.”

“Found her on the internet,” Donovan said.

“You mean you met her on the internet.”

“No, found. She's a mail order bride from the Philippines. You know how hot those third-world chicks are to marry white guys. I picked her out, paid for her to come over, married her and now I live like a king.”

His statement didn't sit well with Foster. How pathetic did you have to be to buy a bride online? But as one side condemned the practice as subhuman, another part of him was thinking about what a good deal it was.

“What's the URL?” Foster asked.

“Siquijorbrides.com.”

“Seek Ye Whore?” Foster repeated. “This isn't a pr0n site, is it?”

“It's a province in the Philippines, a**hole,” Donovan said. “Go ask Santiago.”

Santiago was the Auditing Department's token Flip. He had been initially brought in to fill the government quota for minority employees but was soon doing better than most of the department. He was up for a promotion next month, just after a year in the company.

Foster didn't want to ask Santiago about something as silly as a province but he wanted to make sure that Donovan wasn't pulling his leg, either. He excused himself and found Santiago just coming into the office after lunch.

“Hey Santi,” he said, falling in step with him.

“What's up, Foster?” Santiago asked. “Looking for the files on the Thompson Account?”

“Nothing like that,” Foster said, then paused. “It's not work related.”

“What is it then?” Santiago asked.

“You grew up in the Philippines, right?”

“No,” Santiago said carefully, “I grew up in Georgia. My parents brought me here when I was two. What's this about?”

“Have you ever heard of a province called Seek Ye Whore?”

Santiago thought for a minute, then said, “Yeah, my parents used to scare us with it when we were kids. It's famous for being bewitched. People believe that everyone who lives there has some nasty occult stuff going on. Why?”

“Helping my niece with homework,” Foster said. “Thanks, man.”

Santiago shrugged. “Not a problem.”

That's how Foster found himself checking out siquijorbrides.com.

And that's when he decided that he wanted to get married.