Writer Lauri Shaw

Lauri Shaw is a writer based in London. Beginning Sept. 1, you’ll be able to read a new chapter of her novel Servicing the Pole every week, right here on this website.

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You can also visit Lauri on MySpace.com/laurishaw.

Servicing the Pole

Some people have nightmares about showing up to work naked.

Other people live them.

Servicing the Pole is the portrait of a New York stripper – a battle-worn misfit slogging her way through the city’s roughest clubs, watching as the job replaces her personal life, and secretly harbouring rock star ambitions.

As the fast-paced night life’s deceptive promises of easy money gradually give way to the harsher realities of addiction and prostitution, Emily must decide – is this really the person she wants to be? And if so, at what price?

Excerpts from Servicing the Pole: