The Prostitute You Never Paid

Olivia Semple
8 min readMay 3, 2018

She wasn’t your type, the redhead. She was the kind with fiery orange hair and flawless fair skin. On one of her photos she wore a tight flannel shirt, cut off to expose her midriff. I immediately thought of St- Patrick’s Day.

Photo by Allef Vinicius on Unsplash

That’s the kind of redhead she was, the kind that takes your mind, well, mine anyway, to corned beef sandwiches and Guinness. I remember cocking my head. It was so unlike you.

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Olivia Semple

Gypsy lady, chocolate fiend. Forever dizzy at Kierkegaard's abyss. I should be editing my novel but I’m procrastinating here instead.