A mother and her young daughter live on and off the street for years, only to be "rescued" by a man with means who slowly breaks the mother down before turning his eyes on the daughter.
A young woman is manipulated by a sadistic older man, falling in love with him. To keep him happy, she slowly learns that this is no line she wouldn't cross to make him happy.
A job interview. The speaker is the Human Resources Officer, Alexis Hardy, a regal blonde woman about 35, who is responsible for all hires with the company, a prestigious Banking firm.
A wife and mother is brokenhearted by her husband's request for a divorce. An aging, black stranger takes advantage and greedily worms his way into her life. However, her continuing attempts to resist slowly strengthen her resolve. Will she eventually free herself from his domination? (I abhor racism in the real world, but I don't object to using a fetish trope in a sex-fantasy. The primary person of color is just a bad dude unable to cope with his troubles. His color has little to do with it.)
It's Rebecca's first day in the eighth grade and the fourteen year old girl is excited. Her whole life she has been dreaming of this moment, the day when she will finally be queen of the school. For the eighth grade is the highest grade at Robert E. Lee Middle School. She had heard the big brouhaha about the changing of the school district, the redrawing of its boundaries and the busing in of kids from some of the housing projects in West End but she hadn't paid it any mind.