During his years at SRF, Kooch never missed the manhauls (meals) at 1100 and 1600. […] Through the years as his hearing got bad, Kooch would not hear the Whistle. Since then, manhauls were delayed until he was found and ushered aboard.

The protagonist is aligned to the abject in this room as she wears her dress of rot but she is also aligned to the death fats and she exists at a great distance from the slender angels above.

This description, of course, fits most American cities, but in Chicago the fear of air — what might be called aërophobia — was especially acute.

I'll take things that never happened for $500, Alex. (Meaning you are guessing the event you're referencing never actually happened.)