Calyndi is a succubus whose years of feasting on humans has left her unsatisfied in that one special way that succubi crave the most. Her only hopes for satisfaction are a vampire named Devin and a fellow succubus named Linki. But Devin wants to enslave her and Linki is in love with her - and Calyndi isn't the type of girl who wants to be tied down...
In a frozen gold-mining settlement where fear keeps doors shut, Erica Dutrieu is left for dead after a brutal beating by her husband. Rescued at terrible cost and forced to confront both frontier justice and her own will to survive, she fights back in the only way left to her. Harsh Times is a tale of violence, endurance, and hard-won hope on the edge of civilization.
This is a short flash fiction piece in response to a Writing Prompt: "She did it, she finally found the big bad wolf that ate her grandmother all those years ago, now to finish the job."