Hospitality (short story)

Hospitality was the thirteenth and final short story in the anthology Iris: Abroad, written by Paul Magrs.

It featured the "lesbian novelist" incarnation of Iris Wildthyme, who is one of Iris Wildthyme's many equally true, first incarnations.

Plot
Raoul is gathering audience members for a TV series he works for, Glamorama, while his partner helps out.

Raoul's partner waits at Cleopatra's Needle, the meeting point for the audience members. A golden double decker bus arrives, and Raoul's partner and the audience climbs aboard.

The bus arrives in an industrial estate in Mile End

Characters

 * Raoul's partner
 * Raoul
 * Raoul's boss
 * "Dumpy lady"
 * Ellen
 * Older man
 * Boy
 * Presenter
 * Eliza
 * Iris
 * Sabrina
 * Tracey

People

 * Raoul is French.
 * Raoul's partner knows that Raoul has shagged at least twenty audience members.
 * The older man and his boy comment that Paul McGann from the new Doctor Who TV movie is sexy, and they'd want to shag him.
 * The presenter looks like a young Roy Castle.
 * Eliza is a member of the Lesbian Avengers.

Locations

 * Raoul spends Saturday night in Peterborough, going into gay clubs and pubs, looking for people who would be willing to be part of the audience.
 * Raoul's partner visits Cleopatra's Needle, overlooking the Thames. She knows that This Morning is moving to here, from Albert Dock In Liverpool.
 * Mile End is located in South London.

Food and drink

 * Raoul's partner bought a mixed salad from a Greek deli on Charing Cross Road.

Continuity

 * This incarnation of Iris Wildthyme was first mentioned in PROSE: The Blue Angel.