Marching Orders

I knew the dictionary definition of prostitution.

I just wasn’t prepared for the delusion that came with it.

“And then, I bought him for the drugs he could give my friend,” she said.

I had questions: “Bought him? With money?”

Giggles. “No.”

I said gently, “It sounds like he bought you.”

“Oh no. I definitely bought him.”

The girl suffered under the delusion that she was calling the shots. She had given the marching orders. Nothing could have been further from the truth.

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