A Story in the Torei Universe
A young off-world cage dancer must negotiate a legal way home after curfew. She walks the fine line between enraging her powerful host and submitting to him, only to have him send her home in a humiliating walk of shame. Bound and gagged, she is led back to her home by a humiliating robotic leash device. But what of the native-born Torean slave who joins her on her journey?
An everyman in a retail job discovers by accident that he has strange, supernatural powers that give him control over the actions of others. Well, power corrupts, doesn't it?
The new prisoner in Camp Eighteen was a bit different. She was ridiculed by the guards and scorned by the other prisoners. The fact that she was in "Harmony" with her existence was ultimately the key to her survival.
A young up and coming reporter gets sent to cover the cost of living crisis at homeless tent city. But the location may be far more dangerous than her producer told her.