Call Me (Part One)

"Phone sex girl turns to escort in the 80's"

Susie Harper graduated from high school in the upper third of her 1984 class, but it wasn’t enough to earn her a scholarship. Fights with her family ended one day when she packed up her clothes and left. She got...

Anna Beneath It

"Lola can handle anything, but Anna can’t forever, and for one quiet moment, someone finally sees the difference."

Room 1 still throbbed with its usual chaos that night in early March 1983. The disco record player spun low and relentless, Donna Summer’s voice curling through the air like smoke. Bare bulbs around the vanity mirror threw harsh light...

The Pleasures of Pussycat Park: Playing Dirty

"Mistress' party comes to a close with orgasms, mud, and blood. But what sort of scars will be left?"

KittenThe heat wave was welcome considerin’ Mistress pulled me from the party into the dead of the night in nothin’ but a stolen fur coat, my glasses, and cat ears. I didn’t even have shoes. Luckily, I’m a barefoot kind...

The Listening Room

"In Cold War–era West Germany, a former Stasi operative working in a Kaiserslautern brothel spirals into paranoia as she realizes the surveillance state she fled now lives inside her own mind."

The brothel crouched on a quiet side street outside Kaiserslautern. Its faded yellow stucco melted into the perpetual Rhineland fog drifting down from the Pfalz hills. December 1982. West Germany simmered with unease. Reagan’s “evil empire” speech from March still...

The Pleasures of Pussycat Park: Services Rendered

"Red entertains an enigmatic socialite while Wolf tames one of Kitten's bratty clients."

RedMiss Colette. The name on the bulging file Juniper handed to me before I was shooed off after my show. My wildly fucking successful show that was making everyone money hand over fist, I might add. So I was sent...

American Gigolo

"A sharp, funny Cold War era erotic tale of a savvy Southern belle in a German brothel schooling a cocky GI, where fantasy, power, and laughter collide."

Room 2 felt like a small corner of Dixie dropped into the Rhineland mist. Lace doilies covered every surface, heavy and drooping like Spanish moss. A Confederate-flag patch had been sewn, Becky insisted it was pure irony, onto a throw...

The Swedish Model

"A 1980s West German brothel, Liv transforms sex into cinematic performance, chasing artistic recognition until a client’s confession collapses the fantasy she needs to survive."

The brothel on the outskirts of Kaiserslautern was never meant to be a theater. Yet Liv Andersson had turned Room 5 into something perilously close. A battered wooden easel stood in the corner, nearly always holding a half-finished charcoal nude...