“Some girls shove cupcakes in their mouths and obscene hot dogs wrapped in bacon when there are holes punched through their hearts. I wander into strip clubs, hotels and casinos and offer my body to strangers for money.”
Our own Antonia Crane’s “Merry Christmas, Los Angeles,” an essay about grief, sex work, and happy endings, has been posted at The Whistling Fire.
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