The Change

By Remittance Girl

“One day, quite suddenly, you realize you are changing.

For me, it began in the middle of a cappuccino, sitting at my regular cafe, in the morning, just before the day became too hot. I sat silently, peaceably at the same table as a stranger. He was staring out over the courtyard, to where the gardener's efforts had ceased and the busy street began.

He was middle-aged, balding, and somewhat overweight: a very plain man, a quiet man, thoroughly unremarkable. Some might even say he was ugly.”

The Change is a journey into anonymity, objectification and the pleasure of being
bought and paid for.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Remittance Girl
• Release date: Nov 15, 2012
• ISBN: 9781939175038

Remittance Girl

Remittance Girl lives and writes in exile in a small Southeast Asian country, where she teaches and grows orchids in a house with a large mango tree and a cat called Seven. She holds a Master of Arts in Writing. Driven by the conviction that eroticism is an overlooked but essential part of human nature, Remittance Girl believes that examining this important part of our lives is essential to gaining insight into what motivates us, frames our social interactions and forms our interior sense of self. Erotic fantasies, even very dark ones, give us clues with which we can decipher the symbolic language we use to express who we are and how we fit into our society. Her novellas and short stories have appeared in electronic format on her own website, at ww.cleansheets.com and in the Erotica Readers and Writers online gallery. A number of short stories have appeared in print anthologies.

Book preview

The Change

Remittance Girl

Published by Burning Book Press at Smashwords

Burning Book Press, llc

The Change

Remittance Girl

Copyright 2012 by Remittance Girl

Cover Design: Madeleine Morris

ISBN:9781939175038

All rights reserved under the International and Pan-American Copyright conventions.

No part of this e-book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, including emailing, printing, photocopying, or faxing without prior written permission from Burning Book Press.

This is a work of fiction. Names, places, characters and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dear, organizations, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

This book is for sale to ADULT AUDIENCES ONLY. It contains sexually explicit scenes and graphic language that may be considered offensive by some readers. Please store your files where minors cannot access them.

WARNING

This e-book is intended for adult readers ONLY.

Chapter One: Ascent

One day, quite suddenly, you realize you are changing.

For me, it began in the middle of a cappuccino, sitting at my regular cafe, in the morning, just before the day became too hot. I sat silently, peaceably at the same table as a stranger. He was staring out over the courtyard, to where the gardener's efforts had ceased and the busy street began.

He was middle-aged, balding, and somewhat overweight: a very plain man, a quiet man, thoroughly unremarkable. Some might even say he was ugly.

The more I looked, the more I saw. The eyes behind the steel-framed lenses were grey-blue, with a darker ring around the outside of the iris. The eyebrows were heavy, with flecks of silver amidst the dark brown. His hair was thinning at the sides, and threaded with the same silver strands. It was very neat, though. I could tell he was one of those men who went to the barber often; there was an almost freshly cut line where the back of his hair ended, well above his shirt collar. His nose was very average, neither small nor large. It was his lips that were startling: plumpish, cherubic.