A Story in the Dick M. Young Stories Universe
A young girl growing up with a single mother tries to cope with the loneliness and isolation in rural Mississippi. Her world is turned upside down when she meets Rachael, a new girl in town who exploits her for her selfish interests. Clinging to their friendship, she is devastated when Rachael moves away but soon finds comfort when her estranged father returns, picking up where Rachael left off.
Always wanting her "rape fantasy" to be carried out, she finds herself victim of a possible home break-in with her as the intended target. Is it her fantasy? Is it real?
A neighbour is asked to look out for his neighbour's teenage daughters. When he is called for urgent help he finds one of the girls with a bottle firmly wedged in her butt.
She kept having the same recurrent dream. She found herself running through some great forest glade, a white wispy gown billowing in the breeze behind her. Footsteps, heavy ones, always chasing her, some dark creature, a beast in pursuit. He always caught her, dark and frightening, his eyes shockingly blue in the face of a handsome demon...
A young man thinks back to a night with his dad and his friends, the violence that happened, and how there can be happy endings, for some people at least.