Marg

By Jones Jones

Marg is the story of a 24 year-old Polish immigrant sex worker in London.
The story is told from Marg's point of view. She is initially a masseuse who provides 'out call' services with 'happy endings' to clients across London – as well as to those staying in the sad, business-focused hotels of Heathrow, Gatwick, Luton etc.
A husband and wife team called Antonio and Angie run the massage business. They provide lodgings for Marg (and other girls) and take 75% of her earnings for arranging clients, running a website, providing transport etc. However, Marg does not assume the traditional role of victim, choosing to work as she does, grappling with the ethics of it, and enjoying the money it brings.
Marg lodges in a block of flats in Finchley Central with three Romanian girls who also work as masseuses. She has no bedroom, so has to sleep on a mattress in the lounge. She is initially studying a distance learning course in Sports, Fitness and Management and dreams of returning to Poland once qualified to build a house, start a family and live happily.
But Marg is also struggling to deal with the recent death of her alcoholic father, after he walked out into the path of a British businessman's BMW on a Polish dual carriageway.
Marg is about to change her life in this erotic thriller, but what choices will she make and where will they lead her? Download the story now.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Salt
• Release date: Jun 1, 2014
• ISBN: 9781784630034

Jones Jones

Jones Jones was born in Wales in 1977, but now lives in West Yorkshire. He's had many jobs over the years, including working at a golf course, writing press releases and magazines for big companies, and selling books on a market stall. His short stories have been published in various online magazines, he self-published The Humiliation Triptych in 2012, and his novellas 'Marg' and ‘Riot’ are published by Salt.

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MARG

Marg is the story of a 24 year-old Polish immigrant sex worker in London.

The story is told from Marg’s point of view. She is initially a masseuse who provides ‘out call’ services with ‘happy endings’ to clients across London – as well as to those staying in the sad, business-focused hotels of Heathrow, Gatwick, Luton etc.

A husband and wife team called Antonio and Angie run the massage business. They provide lodgings for Marg (and other girls) and take 75% of her earnings for arranging clients, running a website, providing transport etc. However, Marg does not assume the traditional role of victim, choosing to work as she does, grappling with the ethics of it, and enjoying the money it brings.

Marg lodges in a block of flats in Finchley Central with three Romanian girls who also work as masseuses. She has no bedroom, so has to sleep on a mattress in the lounge. She is initially studying a distance learning course in Sports, Fitness and Management and dreams of returning to Poland once qualified to build a house, start a family and live happily.

But Marg is also struggling to deal with the recent death of her alcoholic father, after he walked out into the path of a British businessman’s BMW on a Polish dual carriageway.

JONES JONES was born in Wales in 1977 but now lives in West Yorkshire after returning from Vienna, Austria where he lived between 2008 and 2012. He has had many jobs over the years, including working at a golf course, writing press releases and magazines for big companies, and selling books at Nantwich market. His short stories have been published in various online magazines and he completed a writing residency at the Vermont Studio Centre in 2012 to complete The Humiliation Triptych, a book of short stories that he self-published. He blogs at www.jonesjones.moonfruit.com and tweets at @jonesjonestales

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To Anna

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MARG

MARG

WE BURIED MY father last week. I went back for the funeral. It cost me one hundred and forty pounds on easyJet. It makes me crazy that I had to pay all that. You think I am a hard nose, tag? You would be a hard nose also if your father left your mother with four young girls like my father did. And it cost me more as well, because I had to take three T-shirts for my sisters. Anything from England will do, but I bought them from Selfridges and gave them to them in the yellow bags, because they like nice things.

They are getting harder to please. My youngest sister, she is now 18 and she is already married. She met a Russian businessman with money. She does not like him, but she tells me she can take it. She calls me when he is out and tells me about the new things she has bought for the house. The sofas and the chairs. I sent her some money for her birthday. Three hundred euro. I heard nothing from her, so I sent her a text message saying ‘Thank you’. That is all I wrote. And she texted me back saying ‘What? Thank you? Are you crazy?’ So I wrote back saying ‘For the three hundred euro’. And she wrote ‘Oh my God. I am so sorry. Thank you for the three hundred euro.’

I will never marry any man for money. I will have my house and my life eventually, but I will also love my husband. He will be ordinary. He will not sell drugs to get rich because that means you have to kill people. He will be normal, but I will love him. But we will have a nice house on its own and also three children.

But this is my life now. It is a balance. I have to know why I am doing this. I am doing this to earn more money than I could otherwise earn and get my house and my life more quickly. But I also know that I must enjoy myself in the day to day. So I try to stay in