Escape
She sat unsteadily on the building's slightly rusty fire escape, smoking a joint. At her black heel clad feet was a nearly empty bottle of vodka. White twill socks reached past her knees, with three black stripes at the top. Her short gray skirt cast a shadow so you couldn't tell what she wore under it. Her matching gray tie was loosened, her smooth red hair pulled back in two loose pigtails. She listed drunkenly to her left. She was so drunk and high, she didn’t even care that she was completely topless, pert brests with eraser hard brown nipples and brown aroras standing out on her pale skin-shirt and bra nowhere in sight, as she greeted you with a slured, “break timme.” You blinked up at her from the adjacent rire escape, the evening sun dipping low enough to paint the fire escape in molten gold, turning the rust into something almost romantic. The city hummed around you—distant horns, the sizzle of street food vendors packing up—but up there, she was a world unto hersel...