
#PayingInKind
PAYING IN KIND
By Zakes Mdluli
2 chapters · 12 min
About this story
Every broke student has a landlord. Few of them have landlords like these: a big house in Centurion, a BMW at the pavement, a beautiful wife with a hostess's smile, and a standing arrangement for gorgeous young tenants who can't cover the rent. PAYING IN KIND is the predatory-couple fantasy played to perfection — the choreographed dinner where the boyfriend is politely drowned in brandy, the topless inspection neither girl expected to enjoy, the lesson nobody asked for and everybody remembers — and it never pretends to be anything but what it is: a girl discovering her price and deciding she likes the exchange rate. It is filthy, it is shameless, and it ends with a wink and a standing appointment. Two chapters, one dinner, no refunds whatsoever. Bring your own black dress — you won't be wearing it long, and you'll never look at a dinner invitation the same way again.


