“A Visit from the Chief”
Fiction by the Argentinean writer Samanta Schweblin, author of “Fever Dream”: She’d seen enough movies to know that this was the moment when she needed to brandish the gun and threaten the man.
She would move the two pink, quilted picture frames, the pencil holder, and the little ceramic box of lipsticks. If her daughter ever did come home, Lidia would be able to put everything back in the two minutes it would take the elevator to reach the fourth floor.