A story in the Max Dolcett Universe
You're in the Dolcett universe for a specific reason. If you arrived here by mistake, don't read this story! It's FICTION and just plain nasty!
In the west, especially among ranchers, kids were commonly farmed out as labor for starvation wages and no wages at all. It was common for a ranch experienced kid to spend nearly as much time growing up with neighbors as it was living at home. Kids were considered free labor. It was simply the way of growing up. It was not common for this to happen to a farm work naive private religious schooled city kid unpinned from any real farm experience or worldly raw life.
By using his Internet hookups, fourteen-year-old Caleb Meyers makes a nice profit selling his body and scores an Xbox One console in a seven-hour, hundred-mile hitchhike across southern Virginia.
Abby is a girl who got sold to a farmer that keeps girls and women for breeding, milking, and meat. These are the pages of the diary she kept while living on the farm. Written with help from AI.
Susan and Ruth lost their parents to Covid-19! Ruth had gone on to college and Susan had to go live with her Grandfather, on his cattle and hog farm! The Grandfather quickly began taking liberties with Susan, especially since it was just him and her on the farm, way out of town!
The husband of a young Indiana farm couple signs up for a stint in the army to better their financial position and is sent on a tour in Germany, hiring his male lover to take care of the farm in his absence. The male lover takes care of the young wife as well, and the farmer comes home to a newly pregnant wife. What possibly could go wrong with this homecoming?
A story in the Libereco Universe
A Libereco Adjacent Story After being bullied at school 14 year old James Markham is sent overseas for the summer by his mother Charlene to live with his Aunt Darlene and her two daughters at a commune in southern France.
She grew up on a cattle ranch not among her own, orphaned from her world. A baby with funny ears meant no challenge for the ranch owners who were used to all strains - four legs or two. But she grew up in short order, worked her way into their hearts and managed to carry her own weight with the work and then some.