"Shawn discovers something about Daisy..."
“You work here?” I said.“Yeah,” my cousin Raven responded. I looked back at Lillian, incredulously. She had the same look.“You’re related?” Lillian questioned, tilting her head.“Yeah,” I said.“Distantly, but still…” Raven added.“Raven… you are a waitress here, right? You don’t...
"A young girl needs quick money to buy her first car, she goes above and beyond to earn that money."
Six months after my sixteenth birthday I hit probably the most important milestone in a teenager’s life, “I PASSED MY DRIVER'S TEST!” I was so excited and couldn’t wait to claim my independence from my parents, and drive the open...
"Shawn discovers something in his relationship and in the Factory..."
It had been a while since I had been back to the Factory. Even though I had not been in some time, I didn’t want to seem like some perverted strip club addict or something. I think that ship has...
"Shawn goes back to The Factory on Amateur Night..."
About a week later, I started thinking about her again. Why was I thinking about her? Daisy… I mean, Charlie was actually a stripper at a strip club I went to. And I actually had an inkling she was one.“You...
"Mary and Adrian make progress, Julie's doubts continue, Annette sees a way forward with Mary's help."
Julie had turned up the sound to listen to Adrian and Annette. As Adrian came into his own and began to really perform, Julie lay back in the chair smiling, a strange ecstasy creeping over her, pride, a sense of...
"A man sees a woman from his past who is now a stripper..."
Let me tell y'all a story about a woman I used to know.I walked through the Factory on a cold night in January. When I walked through, all my olfactories felt a tingle. I looked around at the people for a...
"Julie gets back to work training Adrian and Mary."
"Well?" said Julie when Anthony put the letter down, "what do you think?""It's indefensible behaviour.""You mean the cop?""Yes,” he said. “I'm so glad we got Adrian off. That makes me feel a lot better but it's obviously left a mess....
"The dilemmas develop. The trial makes sense but Julie is pulled into another story."
Laura closed her eyes, sat back into her chair, opened her eyes, looked at the ceiling, back to Julie and then to the floor."You’ve never thought about it before?" said Julie."No," Laura said. "No I haven’t. I kind of always...
"Who does what to whom?"
Julie let Laura pick a dress from her wardrobe, a move that enabled what Julie intended as a quick conversation. Laura refused an offer of clean underwear."Fair enough," said Julie, "it’ll all come off when we get to the studio....
"The truth begins to come out."
There is something inevitable about the way the male bladder works when stimulated by enough alcohol. Anthony stirred at about five am, needing to pee but still mostly asleep.Julie, in the spare room, was woken by his footsteps as he...