Agent Voltaire's laundry dump has been rotting on the corner of his apartment for almost one year now. His lone skin hanging on his virtually empty cabinet is the last one of his outfit. Unfortunately, he has another job early tomorrow morning. His target is the Prime Minister of the Visayan Republic. High profile. And the day after he has another one. The target is still unknown but is also a powerful person according to his barker.
He really need to get the laundry done. Good thing there's an express washer downstairs from his apartment. Zero evidence. Fast clean. Their ads say. Agent Voltaire smirks at their clever ad. Nowadays, people are not what they seem. Everyone has a second job. Everyone's day job is just a front for the dirty exploits they do after their 8 to 5 work hours.
The barker on the Jeepney terminal is the person giving him the targets.
The washers downstairs are erasers-- they clean up evidence of crimes, dispatches bodies etc.
The cigarette vendor is a CIA double agent.
The tricycle driver is a getaway driver.
The cellphone repair guy is a signal hacker and surveillance specialist.
The girl who sells sampaguita is an assassin-chemist specializing in natural poisons from the flower she sells.
This city is a cove of espionage, assassinations and false identities. Everyone has a dark story they don't want anyone to know about. A dirty story that does not need cleaning. A story that will destroy their entire lives once exposed to the world.
But the dirty will not remain dirty. Soon laundry time will come and no single bad deed will remain uncovered and unpunished.
Agent Voltaire dials the hotline for his laundry. The cellphone repair guy listens to the call and forwards it to the cigarette vendor. The next morning after that, the barker will be whispering something to the sampaguita vendor who will then give Agent Voltaire a lei of flowers as a gift. She will ride a tricycle to her apartment and then remove her skin and throw it to the 1 year-old dump she's got rotting on the corner.
Laundry time approaches yet again.
