Alabama Madam

  1964             Sandra looked at herself in the full length mirror, wincing at the sight. This meant she couldn’t work this week. If men wanted to see bruised women, they’d just go home after too many martinis after work. No, they came to her because she looked a certain way. Red hair, blue eyes, and not a freckle on her.             She applied the compress to her tattered leg and climbed into bed. It was late and she had important business tomorrow. Merle Norman didn’t just buy itself.   One Week Later… With the pain slowly subsiding and the … Continue reading Alabama Madam

Alabama Madam, Chapter One

The cold mist was quickly turning to a hard rain, causing Sandra to pull her fur around her shoulders tighter. As she walked the uptown sidewalk she had walked so many times before, and under far different circumstances, her troubled mind began to wander… Birmingham, 1961 He always hit her in the same place, hard to see but easy to put her Merle Norman over in a pinch. When he was done, he lit up a Marlboro next to her Virginia Slims and the cheap motel room began to fill with an acrid smoke. Her eyes began to water, but … Continue reading Alabama Madam, Chapter One