Sinful Submissions by Bemand Ed

Author:Bemand, Ed [Bemand, Ed]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: General Fiction
Published: 2012-04-07T04:00:00+00:00

Ten: How Svetlana found work in the city

Relationships are all about mutual benefit. We enter into them because of what we hope to gain from them, be it companionship, money, solace or satisfaction of desires.

It wasn’t about love for Svetlana. It wasn’t even about sex. It was about having a chance, a chance to escape and maybe become something better than she had been able to be so far. Where Svetlana came from there didn’t seem like there were an awful lot of opportunities available to her. Did she want to work long hours for meagre wages on a farm or in some factory? Either offered a slow, desperate struggle for subsistence against the odds. There had to be a better way for her to live. She just had to be willing to go and look for it.

She had gone to the city looking for work when she was nineteen. It was a familiar pattern and one that many of her friends had elected to follow. Her parents had accepted it as inevitable when she had told them that she was going to leave to see if she could find something better for herself away from the village where she had spent her life to date and had even helped her by giving her a small amount of money to try and get herself started. She had taken her few possessions and ridden the bus to the city, with no real idea what she would do once she got there. She hadn’t found much that was better than her home. Everything was still grimy and dingy and most of the people looked unhappy. The only major difference seemed to be the crowding.

Finding work wasn’t easy. She had finished school but had no real experience of work other than the unskilled labour she had occasionally helped with on the farm and she wasn’t entirely sure what sort of jobs she would even want to do. She was able to rent a room in a run-down and squalid boarding-house. It wasn’t nice but at least she had a bed for the nights. The days she spent walking around, asking after work in all the shops and cafes that she passed. She didn’t find anything. After a few days and with her money almost gone, she found herself knocking on the door of an agency. She wasn’t very clear on what sort of work they offered but she was passed the point of being able to be choosy. She was hungry and would soon be faced with the unpleasant decision of spending the last of her money. She had carefully made sure that she still had enough to get her home on the bus if she didn’t find anything, but to do so would have made it seem like this whole thing had been for nothing and that she had wasted the money her parents had given her.

The slightly overweight receptionist sat behind the desk in the room she found herself in eyed her suspiciously and asked if she could help her.

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