Part of The Lonely Motel, book 4
First published 2025
Chuck Power sits in the same motel room where his adult entertainment empire began twenty-six years ago. The creator of the Bespoke camshow app has returned to the Lonely Motel for one last interview about his rise from small-time director to porn mogul. He built his business alongside Tammy Rivers, his closest friend and star performer, transforming a single-camera operation into a studio featuring dozens of interactive webcam broadcasts. Chuck recounts stories spanning his career: obsessed newcomers chasing fame, psychic bodybuilders, addicts, and exotic dancers who populated his world. His tales swing between crude humor and devastating heartbreak as he chronicles the human cost of selling pleasure. The Lonely Motel extracts its own toll from every guest, whether they stay for an hour or a night. Chuck has paid this price repeatedly over the decades. Yet one story remains untold, the darkest chapter he refuses to share with anyone.
Genres: drama, literary-fiction, contemporary, adult-fiction
Vibes: darkly-humorous, gritty, intimate, introspective, melancholic
Tropes: found-family, frame-narrative, unreliable-narrator, untold-secrets
Setting: Lonely Motel
108 pages · Paperback · Shadow Work Publishing
Content warnings: addiction, explicit-sexual-content, substance-abuse