by
Christopher Buecheler
Her name was Two, and she sometimes thought she could smell her death,
blowing in from the cemetery that lay so uth of her building in East New York.
Sometimes she even hoped for it. Stinking, muttering, moldering death. Cold and
dark. On these occasions, she felt as if even the dirty embrace of the grave would
be better for her than the squalor she lived in now. She thought, maybe, she
might find some sort of peace that had been missing all her life.
Darren owned her building, like he ow ned the girls who occupied it. Three
stories tall, four rooms to a floor. They lived two to a room, two bathrooms per
floor, two kitchens in the building. Just over twenty girls, every single one of
them selling her body each night at hi s command. In return for the money they
brought him, he gave them food. He gave them shelter. He gave them drugs, and
the drugs gave them escape.
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