“Consorting with prostitutes was forbidden, of course, but it was one of those rules that you could occasionally nerve yourself to break. It was dangerous, but it was not a life-and-death matter. To be caught with a prostitute might mean five years in a forced-labour camp: not more, if you had committed no other offence. […] Tacitly the Party was even inclined to encourage prostitution, as an outlet for instincts which could not be altogether suppressed. Mere debauchery did not matter very much, so long as it was furtive and joyless, and only involved the women of submerged and despised class.”
-- George Orwell, 1984

This story is set in the universe of the novel, 1984. It would help if you've read the book, yeah.

(I posted this on 2 other sites (AO3 and dA, if you were wondering) and the reception's pretty good, so I figured, why not? So, yes, this is completely my first upload on this site. Excuse me if I make a fool of myself?)

I found the cover photo on tumblr. This post.

Disclaimer: This never happened, I don't own any of them, etc.

And I suck at character descriptions (why are those even required?!) so here goes nothing:

1. Prologue

   (Introducing some of the things unique to the 1984 'verse. You wouldn't understand some of the later chapters if you didn't read this first.)

2. Ignorance Is Strength

3. Frankie

4. Santa Ain’t Coming To This Town (But We’ll Manage)

5. A Form Of Stupidity That Penetrates Our Minds

6. An Unpleasant (But Not Unforeseen) Ending For The Cherophobic

7. Mikey

8. Epilogue