This Circus the World
By Amber Sparks, first published in Corium Magazine
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.
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A woman clocks in and out of work. She works in cheap spaces, having sex with men. It is recorded to make violent BDSM-like pornography. Men in suits always arrive to take photographs. Sometimes the men she is with physically assault her and call her Alice, which is not her name. Some days, the woman dresses and prepares herself in a certain way and waits against a vanity until the man arrives. The men in suits often come and take photographs of them while talking on headsets. After the shoot, she and the man leave in separate directions. She takes the bus home and cleans herself. In some scenarios, the man is in a bathtub. She cuts some of his flesh. Her clothes are always crumpled up on the floor, and there is never enough fabric to cover her. In other instances, she and the man are filming alone. Sometimes, instead of hurting each other, they hold each other and become desirous without pain. When they are not hurting each other, they put away the camera, cattle prod, cat-o-nine tails, and handcuffs. After this, they dress each other and share food. They say I love you. An alarm sounds and the men in suits, also wearing bulletproof vests, enter the room and split the pair up. The blood of the man and woman pool and their true names are revealed. The lights go off.
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