S. S. Esty

A Most Curious Maid

Most people use the hotel safe to lock up what they perceive as their most valuable items: passports, jewelry, and cash. They trust the heavy door and combination will protect their most valuable possessions. But what they forget to lock up, as Claudia knows, is their diary. Luckily for Claudia, she never had to crack open a safe or dig through a guest’s belongings too much in order to find a diary. In fact, sometimes it’s tucked under a pillow or even left idle on the desk and Claudia would’ve had to touch it anyway while making the room impeccably clean during her shifts as a maid in a five-star hotel in New Orleans.