Ella Bushwick Whore ❤️❤️

About New York City

Hmmm, whore, you say? Tricky word, that is. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate… and hate? Well, that’s where shit gets messy. I’m sittin here, thinkin bout “Let the Right One In,” my fave flick, ya know? That creepy-ass vampire kid, Eli, and sweet lil Oskar. Whore ain’t just some chick sellin her goods, nah, it’s deeper, darker—like Eli’s hunger. “I’m twelve, but I’ve been twelve for a long time,” Eli says. Whore’s like that—old as dirt, stuck in a cycle.

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Liara Roux writes about the salacious details leading up to her decision to become a career sex worker, and the unexpected truths she learned while working in.

I stroll by DeBruyn st. sometimes, smell food from bodegas mixin' with city sweat. It’s wild – gritty and tender, ya know? Hell, sometimes I get mad at the city – if you step in somethin' nasty, I swear – but then Brenda at the corner deli fixes me up wit' a good hero and now we're cool.

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