Roanne And Michelle On Their Own XIII

[Robert Crisman]

Miss Priss Was Dead  X3

1.

At night in the dorm with some wheezing bitch in the bed next to hers, Michelle would start thinking. Or rather her mind would spin like a dervish, replaying the tumblejack weeks that led to this bed in the detox.

Rob, Joey, the jailhouse...all those flabby-ass tricks...

Any illusions she'd had that the fast life was Dreamland had long since been shitcanned.

Except for a last bit of opium smoke, the illusion that winked at the core of the dream--the one in which she was a star, an untouchable badass who spit on the world.

Michelle up in lights...

2.

The tricks that she'd turned. That double she'd done with Roanne, the third one, where she'd been the driver. She'd laid Roanne on the bed and spread Roanne's legs. And she'd been the one who'd brought out the Trojan...

The guy'd gotten off in, like, seconds...

And she, Michelle, had picked up the money--a bonus there with it--then walked through the lobby, cool as the queen of some lost, kick-ass tribe, a secret smile of disdain on her lips, disdain for the rabble who only wished they could touch her...

3.

Miss Priss was dead. She'd died in that bed. Michelle pulled the life support there, watched her shrink down to nothing, and never looked back. She'd given her lips to Roanne and then to the guy, stone cold ho that she was from that moment--a professional lady, bound to be paid for making the night come alive.

Michelle grew her wings in that bed and left it a nighthawk, and flew with Roanne and got paid.

And now here she was in this stupid-ass detox...

[Joey Delgado]

Ahhhh, regrets. Does this mean Michelle is finally a changed woman? Sounds like she's too angry to have reached that point, and she certainly puts a lot of the blame on Roanne. Great installment. Could read these all night, but I'm afraid of what it'll do to my moral compass. 

[Angela]

Wow.  I guess there are a lot of folks who land in such territority and manage to convince themselves they are strangers in a strange land.  Just makes a girl wonder what exactly is it going to take?