He pulled into the gravel parking lot at Eddie's Porn Palace. The place was located well outside the city limits, down a winding county road in the piney woods two miles east of the Miracle Mile Racetrack.
He was there to do research for a story for a regional porn magazine. He'd been given a paltry advance, but he was intrigued enough about what he'd heard to come out on this early Saturday morning; it was 1 a.m.
He walked into the story and gravitated toward a rack of glossy porn magazines. He thumbed a few, looked behind the counter at the fat, grey-haired man that stood a leisurely watch over the merchandise. He stepped forward and sidled up to the glass counter, took a glance at the half-naked nun tattoo on the old mans arm and extended his hand.
"Hello, I'm Kevin Ward. I'm a writer. I'm here to see a, I believe her name is Donna."
The manager shook his hand but his face revealed nothing. He had a strong grip. He released Kevin and looked intently into his eyes for a minutes. "Donna's customers don't usually give me their resume."
The Reporter: "Uh, well, I'm not exactly a customer. I'm here about doing an interview." The Manager: "INN-terview," he said with great inflection.
Rep: "Yes, she came recommended." Mgr: Smiling now, he broke open yellowed teeth and said, "Did she now?"
Rep: "Yes, well. It's the blowjobs. I, uh, am I in the right place," Kevin said, suddenly feeling uncomfortable as he looked around the room. They were alone except of a skinny tall man in a green gimme cap who was reading the back cover of a paperback.
Mgr: "Heh. Relax. Even if you ain't in the right place, I don't think you're likely to cause me any trouble."
Rep: "Trouble? Oh, no no. Hey, I'm not a cop." Mgr: "I didn't think so." He paused, sized up the newcomer one more time and raised his eyebrows as if to express, "You got another question?"
Rep: "Well, the thing is I hear these are kind of strange blowjobs." Mgr: He shrugged.
Rep: "Can I see her." Mgr: "The blowjobs were her idea," he said, obviously drifting on some tangent. "I think? Well, I know it wasn't my idea."
The Reporter: "What? Has it been so long you don't remember?" Mgr: "All I mean by that is she brought it up. Maybe it was her idea or somebody else suggested it."
Rep: "Ok. So. How long has she been doing this?" Mgr: (shrugs his shoulder, makes a quizzical face) "Uh, started in ... five years now, be five years this summer. I know cuz it came up right after spring semester. She was trying to go to school then, but then she started into that kinky smoking thing and dropped the idea of going back in the fall."
Rep: "So. How does this work? I've been told guys don't actually see her? They just stick their pricks through a hole in a wall?" Mgr: "Heh. Yeah. That's it."
Rep: "That's weird. Don't you think?" Mgr: (shrugs, snears matter-of-factly) "She doesn't want to see their faces? Who knows? It was her set up from the start."
Rep: "So. How do the books work? The accounting?" Mgr: "Guy usually comes in, gives the porn goods a once over. Picks out a video or porn mag or whatever. Makes a purchase, only I charge for several units."
Rep: "Like he comes to the counter with one item and you charge him for three?" Mgr: "Four, if it's one. Whatever he picks out, I add on what comes to an extra $30 Georgies."
Rep: "That's her price? Thirty?" Mgr: (shakes his head) "That's our price. Hey, I'm taking a risk here, too. I take $10 per."
Rep: "And they don't mind they don't get to see her face?" Mgr: "Eh. Some do. But the regulars don't look a gift horse on the mouth. They just stick their cocks there, haha haa!"
Rep: (smiles) "Isn't there some kind of code?" Mgr: "Oh yeah. She only does this on a referral basis. I don't know where they started coming from, but all of a sudden when she opened for business guys started coming in I hadn't seen before. She gave me a list. If they weren't on the list, no suckee."
Rep: "Uh huh. So. How many customers on the list?" Mgr: "It gets updated a lot. Some go off the list, but it grows more than not. Started, I think, with twenty-something. It's up to 87 now."
Rep: "Wow. They all come every week?" Mgr: "Nah. She sees maybe - oh, thirty to fifty guys a week. Mostly Fridays and Saturdays. Payday?"
Rep: "So. Can I see her?" Mgr: (smirks) "You ain't on the list, Mr. Big Shot."
Rep: "I know. But if you could just tell her Maxine sent me." Mgr: "Maxine?: (pauses, ponders) "Ok." (He calls from his cell phone to her's. She picks up.) "Yeah, sweet lips. There's a guy here, showed me an I.D. from that She Devil rag. Said to tell you Maxine sent him? ... Yeah, Maxine. You know a ... oh. Okay, baby." (looks up at the reporter with slightly surprised expression). "Sez to go in."