A lonely, fifty-year-old man is out walking through a crummy part of town. He’s looking to feed his compulsion for prostitutes. One of his usuals gets picked up by someone else before he can get to her, and he has to settle for a woman who looks like she just broke out of a drug rehab center.
This story is not pretty. The man is pathetic, and the girls are almost ghastly. It’s a sad situation. The ending fits with the tone of the story, although it comes out of the blue.
The reason to read the story is
to appreciate the ugliness of it. The sex is creepy and isn’t much of a
turn-on, but it’s still an artful and vivid story.
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