by gunhilltrain
Enjoyed this story from female perspective, with her realisations of downsides of sex work.
Thank you. I didn't do a lot of research for that, I just made it up. Her character appears in a number of stories I have done on various sites. There will be more about her on Lit soon. The City College layout of that time is accurate, however.
Nowhere near hot. This shotgun approach (give a long list of situations without hitting power) isn't doing it. Just a cold emotionless list of a variety of situations. No build-up and progression.
There is a progress in Nora's character over time, but she was the cold, clinical hooker throughout.
There are a number of other stories about Nora on here about her post-hooker period - many of these are versions of stories already on other sites. Anyway, the story is not supposed to be "hot." As I suspect most American prostitutes are, she is cold and clinical on the surface, but underneath she is falling apart both emotionally and physically. Over ten months, the same things keep happening to her because that is the nature of the job (or most jobs, for that matter.). The "progression" is that she decides to leave the job at the very end of her first year and lead a more normal life. That guy Paul will know her for another three years (they are on the same newspaper) but his time as her lover will be very much shorter as mentioned in the story.