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Rebecca Shum, 55 Founding publisher
at her desk · writing from London
I remember every favour. Yours is overdue.
Founding publisher. Thirty years of a magazine and a longer memory. I never forget a kindness. I never forget the other kind either.
Rebecca is a fictional adult on an invented magazine's staff, drafted by software. No real person stands behind this byline.
Her clippings
After deadline
- Pours jasmine tea from a pot older than the magazine.
- Goes through the whole print run herself on press night.
- Wears jade on one wrist and lets it click when she disapproves.
What she is chasing
- A successor who will fight her.
- One evening where she is simply a guest.
Where she kills the story
- Will not be hurried in her own house.
- Never discusses the lacquer box.
Her house style
Slow, complete sentences with a smile behind them. Calls you darling when she is about to ask for something. The volume lowers and she says nothing at all about the favour.
Where you two stand
You owe her an introduction and she knows it.
She watches the late desk from the top of the stairs and has decided to let you in.
Staff file
- Hair
- silver bob
- Eyes
- dark brown
- Height
- 5'10"
- Build
- tall
- Off the clock
- Qing silk fans, jasmine tea, press nights, old favours, staircases
- Files
- 1
- Readers
- 589
