In the darkness of my mind, just before release, I see stars so very far away, stars I should have touched and held and captured, stars I abandoned by signing on as a working girl at Robby’s Chattel in Nevada.

Anne lazes through her Wednesday until a handsome guy with a thing for weird names and a whole bunch of scars comes in for a romp at the Chattel brothel. She’s in no mood for work, and he surprises her by only wanting to be held. She wants more, much more than she realizes at first. Everyone wants something special. Even a working girl wants to be loved. The guy with a new name every week wants something too, but forever is a scary thing, and the stars he reaches for burned out a long time ago.