In this excerpt from a longer piece of work, multiple characters' lives intersect near an interplanetary brothel.

The women of a brothel house live under the care of a woman referred to as Mama, while facing the disapproval and disrespect from the public.

A woman falls in love with a man she makes pornography with in a dystopian-like society where mysterious businessmen control this sex-work enterprise.

A trans dominatrix has a sexual encounter with a client in the dressing room of a night club. The unexpected pleasure of the encounter leaves her feeling as if they've seen the reality of one another's loneliness.

A 19-year-old prostitute in contemporary New York City uses her client's sadness as an excuse to have a threesome with her attractive coworker.

In downtown Houston, a teenage boy hustles for an older pimp and navigates an increasingly intimate relationship with one of his clients. He also keeps the pimp’s HIV diagnosis a secret from the rest of their crew.

A 30-year-old lesbian businesswoman goes to a strip club with the other businessmen in hopes of winning a contract, but is surprised by her connection to one of the dancers—despite her hopes of playing it cool. As she ruminates over the connection, an old friend shows up and tells her information that upends everything she thinks she knows about her life.

Out of sheer desperation, two sex workers break into a vacant home on Christmas, indulging themselves and falling asleep. When one of them wakes up, she finds her companion dead in the bathroom and must decide how to protect herself.

A male stripper lives with his unemployed sister and cousin and their kids and his aunt, who remains cheery and optimistic in the face of every ill fortune, in a dangerous neighborhood. Then, his aunt dies and briefly comes back from the dead as a rapidly disintegrating ghoul with magical powers who bosses them around, determined they work toward a better life. He starts to dream of a better future, all the while wondering why others have so much when they have so little.

A car dealer’s deal with a drug dealer goes horribly wrong.