A story in the Not a White Knight in LA Universe
Left alone for her 21st birthday, Gracie wanted something special sexually, something rougher than her usual mommy-approved boyfriends. But once she left the car things were not quite as advertised; she found herself on a path that took a sharp turn towards "Does Not End Well." Just in time she was rescued. But he was not a white knight so her life took another sharp turn.
A Hollywood movie casting director is sent to Asia to lecture on stagecraft in Tokyo and to find a boy actor for a movie. He has happily taken the assignment to combine work with pleasure in indulging his fetish for fourteen-year-old boys in Asian countries where the age of consent allows that. He feeds his fetish in Tokyo.
Collecting some of my shorter stories into anthologies. In "Trade In" he's just filed for divorce, and he's surprised by his ex's estranged daughter showing up at the dealership around closing time. In "Yule Snow" a divorced father is about to learn that his daughter's girlfriend isn't quite as lesbian as he thought she was. (Incest codes included for the squeamish on Trade In, even though it's step )
I stand on the temple steps in the sunlight, a harmitu of Inanna waiting for someone to purchase my first time with a man. Waiting to begin the sacred rite—mirroring the mating of sacred king and high priestess, of god and goddess—that will make me a woman.