Equity (Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Student Loans) by Chris Barlow
Picture if you will: A not-too-distant future where artists delinquent on their student loans are paid a visit by the mysterious Man from the Bank, a hard-working functionary who repossesses whatever equity he can (surgically, if necessary). Then picture the listless housewife who "hires" one of these failed artists as her pool boy (slash boy toy). Sure it sounds torrid, but Whoopi and Joy on The View...
Picture if you will: A not-too-distant future where artists delinquent on their student loans are paid a visit by the mysterious Man from the Bank, a hard-working functionary who repossesses whatever equity he can (surgically, if necessary). Then picture the listless housewife who "hires" one of these failed artists as her pool boy (slash boy toy). Sure it sounds torrid, but Whoopi and Joy on The View say it’s all the rage! And besides, all Corinne has to do is sign on the dotted line...
It's a brave new world where anything is possible, but only if your credit rating says so. Scrawny young Sam's years of studying in the fine arts of cartooning and illustration have been lobotomized right out of his head, but his arrival turns perpetually-bored Corinne's lust for, well, *lust* into a lust for a new life when she tries to restore his artistic ambition by borrowing some talent from the bank. What could possibly go wrong in a world where nothing goes right unless you're willing to pay the price?