Something Great and Beautiful by Enrico Pellegrini

Author:Enrico Pellegrini
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Other Press
Published: 2018-09-17T16:00:00+00:00

CHLOÉ VERDI

May 4, 2009, New York City

he prosecutor shook his head in disbelief. “Porn? Really?”

ROSSO FIORENTINO

January 11, 2008, New York City

told you it wasn’t going to work,” said Lucien Verger in his Franco-Greek English as I felt two arms hoisting me up off of the sidewalk and dragging me somewhere inside.

When I opened my eyes, a 3,000-watt lamp blinded me. Was I in an operating suite? I tried to clutch at something. A short guy named Rex was calling out, “Snow White, Behind the Scenes Part I!” and someone crouched between a girl’s legs was throwing away the third razor. Where the hell was I? Lucien Verger paraded in front of me in a white bathrobe, his hairy red knees sticking out. I slowly remembered that I had dragged myself to the address listed on his business card.

“You know what my great-uncle always said?” said Verger, sitting on the couch where I was lying. “Beat your woman every night. And if you don’t know why, she will.”

As he untied my shoes, I realized that I couldn’t feel anything from my waist down. I was frostbitten. He then rubbed another finger of rum on my lips to get my circulation going.

“And you’ve been too good to her,” said Verger. “Especially if she’s an ex-junkie.”

“But Chloé doesn’t—” I gave a sudden, hard cough.

“You told me that. She’s unstable, her arms are like Swiss cheese, and she doesn’t drink. Ex-junkie, big time…But check out all the sexy chicks here!”

“And you’re a sexy boy,” said a sweet voice. Two nails, which looked slightly bitten notwithstanding the nail polish, caressed my face. “My name is April.”

I continued to look around more and more confused, wondering where I could possibly be. Rex, the director, called again, “Quiet on set, camera rolling,…action!” With those magic words an almost total silence descended over the room. You could only hear the bip bip of the digital camera. The girls were lined up against a wall, well coiffed and with bright gloss on their lips, and they said things that made no sense like “I was in seventy films last year,” or “I’m always faithful to my boyfriend except when I’m in bed.” Since she had called me “sexy boy,” I realized I was waiting to hear what April had to say.

“It’s my first girl-girl scene,” said April, smiling, sounding both shy and proud. “Since I was fifteen my dream has been to work with Marie Alice.” While the camera followed her, she again caressed my cheek with two fingers. “But I still like sexy boys!”

Finally, with a slow pan the camera moved in on Marie Alice, who was completely naked. She had tawny red hair and her beauty spots were scattered on her clear shoulders like a handful of pepper.

“Maybe you know everything about me,” she said, spreading her legs and revealing her pubis, which was as bare as a peeled apple. “But did you know that I was born in Moscow on Valentine’s Day?”

“Cut! Okay, girls!” said Rex, applauding briefly.

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