Tina and the Big Bad Wolf: A Short Story

Being a stripper didn't bother Tina. A job was a job, but when she realized she could make even more money by becoming a bookie on the side, she jumped at the chance. If she won, she got the money. If she lost, the customers would collect their winnings in the form of lap dances, which still left Tina with cash in hand. The scheme was perfect.

Except when the marks stopped paying. A five foot twenty-something woman in a g-string just wasn't intimidating enough to make the customers cough up the cash. So Tina turned to a gangster friend, who assigned one of his enforcers to help her out. This arrangement would have suited her, if not for the fact that the enforcer turns out to be Joshua, her ex-boyfriend, who resents her stripping job and doesn't respect her new bid for independence.

In one night, Tina and Joshua will try to collect on her debts without driving one another crazy. As complications mount, Tina makes two revelations. Her new business is not going to be the easy money she hoped, and she did not know her ex-lover as well as she thought.

Before they are done, Tina and Joshua will come to a confrontation that will change both their lives forever.