Mackenzie is not your everyday dominatrix. She doesn't wield a cat-o'-nine-tails. She won't be caught dead in leather. Do you know how badly leather sweats?
A gifted Muay Thai fighter coming off a devastating loss, she makes way more money by applying pain to others with the time-dilating aids of a six-sided chamber of flashing screens and lights, blistering music, and a pair of night-vision goggles. She has 401(k) and medical.
Redemption is within reach. Love, a possibility. But memories of a severe mother resurface. Binge-eating becomes her BFF. Ah, those pesky carbs.
Bradley VanDeventer is the author of Our Lady of the Hypercube and various short stories. He dabbles in Muay Thai and loves music above all. He lives in Anaheim, CA.