#737 Legends of the White Lady- Mia Alvar
The Legend of the White Lady is a story told in the streets of Manila. The details change, but something awful happened to a white woman during WWII and now she haunts all men around a few blocks downtown. Alice is visiting Manila for the second time and has heard this story from a cab driver that has one of the ladies white lace gloves as “proof” she exists.
Alice is here for work. She is a late twenties model with an all-American look. She cant get much work in NY because she isn't exotic enough, and lately she hasn’t been looking for work because she is depressed. Her best friend, also a model died of a stroke and Alice is feeling her mortality. She is lonely and more than ever feels like a freak, being taller than most people around her, and like the ghost, her white image stands out.
Her model gig has some snags after she is attacked late at night by a senile woman who mistakes her for the ghost (or something like that), and as she mulls retirement, wonders what else she has to offer the world.
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