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The scene emphasizes oppressive atmosphere, lingering tobacco residue, and the physical discomfort of fetish club costumes as she manages pain and routines while keeping her young son Jerald sheltered from what happens in the front rooms. The narrative focuses on character pressure, coercive work conditions, and the tension between public survival and private protection.","Tombstone  \nby Candace Smith  \nSmashwords Edition  \nCopyright 2011 Candace Smith Published by Strict Publishing International  \nSmashwords Edition, License Notes  \nThis ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then you should return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nDEDICATION  \nTo Dan and Amy for their long term support and friendship.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nPRELUDE  \nThe yellowed plaster was rough against Suzanne’s shoulders. She was tall, almost six feet without her stilettos, and the changing area behind the thick curtain was uncomfortably confining.  \nIn its entirety, the dressing room was the size of a large closet. It had been painted a faded yellow that was dulled by more than a decade of nicotine coating the walls. Small brown droplets of the toxin clung to the ceiling from wise guys’ cigars; reminiscent, sad dirty tears from when the building originally opened as a comedy club.  \nWhen Stevie Bouchard’s political bribes were in place, he transformed the failing lounge into a club that offered more than watered down drinks from the bar and an occasional laugh. The added smoke debris from years of cigarettes, overflowing in ashtrays and floating stale clouds of smoke around the small dressing rooms while the voluptuous young women struggled in and out of their fetish club costumes, had layered a new generation of the poisonous stench onto the surfaces.  \nTo balance her efforts, Susanne leaned her naked body against the dingy wall, pushing her feet through the small vinyl openings of the bodysuit and tugging and stretching the outfit up her legs. The light dusting of talcum on her skin only eased her efforts slightly, and Susanne felt as though she was pulling a tight rubber band up her shapely body.“Fuck.”  \n“Are you all right, mom?”  \n“I’m fine, Jerald.” She had not realized her gasp was audible, and she peeked over the drape. Susanne leaned against the wall again and stared atthe stained, heavy, red curtain hanging less than two feet in front of her. It had been her choice to take the room in the back, even though it was the smallest. It kept Jerald sequestered from the rooms in the front, and chances were less that he would get an eyeful of something a six year old had no business seeing.  \nShe and Gertie had been promoted off the floor in the front of the club and moved to the lucrative back room business, trading their gold costumes that covered all but eyes and mouths for the colorful uniforms with cutouts exposing breasts, pussies, and bottoms. They had talked about painting the dressing room, but three years later the old faded yellow paint still clung to the plaster. Stevie told her that the dressing rooms had originally been  \npainted yellow for the comedians, because it was supposed to be a ‘happy’color. Susanne glanced at the grimy wall behind her. Yeah, Stevie. It’s fuckin’ hilarious.  \nTips pointed down, her bountiful heavy breasts swayed with her efforts to tug the red latex up her long legs. Supple tanned thighs, head turning appendages when she wore short cut-offs, were Suzanne’s current enemy. She pushed the soft flesh into the restrictive leggings, and then she stood and bounced her ass into the open seat of the garment. “Fuck,” she gasped again.  \n“What, momma?”  \nSuzanne turned and looked over the curtain, resting a hand on the bowed thin metal rod.“Nothing, Jerald.” Her little boy sat a few feet away, distracted and driving a small car around the vanity tabletop, and carefully avoiding the hairbrush and makeup strewn haphazardly across the surface. 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