Roberta Morris Boeken

"These twenty-something people now come into adult life with an amazing critical awareness, an ethical sense,”Morris observes, “and all kinds of factual knowledge and stories, more than any library imaginable, available on their smartphones. They know they have that access. That’s old now. They can take that much for granted and do. What are they going to do with all that info? What’s that story? This is a story about that story. That’s where I’m going with Suicidal Maniacs. The daughter’s story is nothing like the mother’s. With their family of five shrunk to the two of them, the dyad must split apart, and it’s a bit like splitting an atom. The energy released can be explosive, though more vital than deadly."

Heidi, a phone sex operator, with her housekeeper housemate Dom, struggle to make ends meet in Silver Lake, Los Angeles, recently designated by Forbes as "America's Best Hipster Neighborhood". the two women discover a winning formula when they combine their talents to create a dominatrix housekeeping service. As their client list grows a young suspicious housewife, Katy, phones the service expecting to confront her husband's lover. Instead she sees opportunity for herself, as way out or possibly a way to save her marriage. Sexual Mercy is a story about transgressing boundaries in order to make sense of our lives.