What happens when a 19-year-old girl who is studying at university suddenly needs funds to pay her fees, and, doesn't have the funds? Flip burgers? Sell vacuum cleaners? Get men to pay for her to spread her legs? Which one do you think will better pay the bills?
Alif is a country quite unlike any you may have visited but a great deal like all of them. It is a land where the State runs the brothels, but where many liberties are proscribed. In this land, Ana takes up employment as a secretary in a State brothel, but finds out as much about herself as about the others who work there. She falls in love with a woman sentenced to serve in the brothel for the crime of lesbianism. Needless to say, the course of true love does not run smooth.
A story in the Immortality Curse Universe
If an NPC in a Gamelit story falls in the forest where no one can hear, do they make a sound? For Nora Smith, it depends. This is the story of Nora's metamind, there to make sure she has a back story by the time she needs it--a story of AIs and love. A companion to my Phoenix Rising story, but if you like AIs and gamelit world building, you can start here.
A story in the Night of Madness Universe
After getting fired after hitting a jerk at work insults mutants, a new source of income is needed. So Tina hits the streets, selling herself in order to pay the bills.