A Literary Escort

by Zoë Pollock

Caroline Leung interviewed her friend "Mary," a 22-year-old student, writer, and sex worker in Toronto. Mary's profession has provided great fodder for her creative writing:

Her job gives her stories every night: the man whose paltry inheritance pays for her visits, the curator with the white thong, the cable TV star with a penchant for double-ended dildos. She’s a discoverer of strangely-shaped birthmarks. She’s inspected a thousand bookshelves. She’s answered fucked up questions, and has been a solution for fucked up problems. She genuinely feels blessed.