Tricks

by Lady V.

"My name is Violet. My name is Violet. It's me, Lady V. I'm from Warren, home from school for the summer. Violet, the CMU nursing student. Violet, the student from Warren. My name is Violet." I recited my strip persona while I singed my hair on the rusted curling iron under the baking dressing room mirror lights each night before shift. I knew Violet inside and out; I knew her better than I knew myself. She was a bold and deviant woman; she was hungry and fearless, yet had the charm of a southern belle. Violet never failed to bring me the money I desperately needed to return to school. I needed her, because she paid my tuition, but I resented her for the things she put me through in order to obtain it. I lived with the memories-she didn't. Those memories have lay dormant within me for some time. Until now. This is a very realistic, uncensored breakdown of the good, the bad, and the ugly aspects of my sixty-five-night ordeal dancing in the most prestigious strip club in Detroit.

110 pages, Paperback

Published October 8, 2017