Dating for Dollars

Previously published: Johns, Marks, Tricks & Chickenhawks (Soft Skull Press, 2013); Best American Erotica, 1995 (Touchstone Book published by Simon and Schuster, 1995 as Scarlett Fever) Originally published: BUST Magazine, Summer/ Fall 1994 (as Scarlett Fever) I paused at the doorway to the dining room of Laurent—it was not quite Lutece, but it was in the same neighborhood, …

Killing Time

Originally published as "Lele" in Hos, Hookers, Callgirls and Rentboys: Professionals Writing on Life, Love, Money, and Sex (SoftSkull, July 2009)     I got time to kill. I’m not scheduled to work anywhere tonight and I don’t know what to do with myself. There’s no reason to be home—it’s filthy and me being here …

Going Solo

Menopause was the best thing that could have happened to me. The vodka haze & hormone fog lifted, and if I wasn't that hyper-sexual being, I'd have to redefine myself. (Previously published, October 2015, O, The Oprah Magazine)