Life on the space outpost becomes unbearable for Darius. His stationmate is a real bitch and he longs for contact with real humans instead of a sym he can no longer stand to even look at. But the wait is short, the resupply ship is just hours away.. time for one last beating.
The train car was packed. Bodies pressed against bodies as the 6:15 express lurched away from the station, the summer heat making the air thick and stale inside the carriage. Lydia gripped the overhead rail with both hands, her knuckles white as the crowd jostled around her. She'd been stupid to wear such a short skirt to her internship interview, but the agency had seemed so fashion-forward on their website.
On his eighteenth birthday, Owen Vey learns that his female-led family has built its identity around a coercive sexual tradition—and expects him to submit to it. When his aunt’s violent abuse sends him to the hospital, Owen escapes into an uncertain world without documents, education, or a home. With help from strangers, he fights for legal independence, exposes the family’s secrets, and builds a future of his own.
A continuation of my Robin story; having become the toy of two teen aged hotel employees the night before, Robin becomes prey to one of them again, being their 'pig' as she had been the night before.
1947; a girl's dismembered body was found, placed by the roadside as though she had simply lay down there, her body halved. The police allowed the evidence to be compromised by the hacks who trampled over everything and the murderers were never caught; not by the police anyway. This is the story of what I like to think happened; vengeful women carry out their own investigations and bring those guilty to a justice of their own, one weak link gives up the others; retribution is divinely served.
Sally copies a story from the internet and publishes it, and it becomes a best seller. Life is great until the real author arrives wanting more than just his share of the royalties.
Sent alone to a dead planet in a tiny rover named CRAWLER, nineteen-year-old Elise Hart is offered redemption in exchange for obedience. Tasked with mapping buried ruins through a world she can’t see, isolation, pressure, and constant monitoring wear her down. Until the mission reveals that the planet is not as empty as it was meant to be, but will anyone believe her?
Now that Amber has an apartment, she sets about trying to find a job. But she's having no luck. So her ever-helpful landlord, Carl, suggests a friend, Rick, who is looking for a new PA. So, Amber goes to interview for the job...