This is the third in a triptych of "Couples" stories about three couples at a function, (1) Eve & Adam "Eve's Choice" about newly weds, (2) Carol & Rob "Cheese & Clicks" about two people meeting for the first time, and (3) Natalie & Alan about the long-divorced parents of the Bride. You do not need to read the first two to read the third.
You need to sell a planet and you need to exterminate the horrible beings on that planet to do so, however, they have created two exquisite things. What do you do?
There's a way to get past any woman's defenses and get her eager and panting to hop into bed with you. A shy professor discovered it by accident and it sure livened up his social life. But maybe it has some dangerous side-effects... This story won a (cash prize) Honorable Mention in a writing contest in 2003.
An experienced, sexy woman Army Sergeant takes a newly created Vat-boy sex slave into her 'tender' care and seeks to make him a soldier in the war for survival that the human race is a part of. She bonds with her charge and they bond, sexually, with others they meet.
Being an experienced verteran, her satirical view of things is firmly entrenched and shown for the reader's amusement. Add to that his inexperience and you have a bubbling, sarcastic brew.
Brian had made the mistake of getting married young - to a sexy but unsuitable, self-willed woman. He thought he'd got out of it, with the divorce. But their daughters, who live with him, have holidays with her... and she's SERIOUSLY into freestyle parenting.
Timothy is constantly being humiliated by his boss, Mrs Goodhead. His desire to get revenge by humiliating Mrs Goodhead, is realised with the aid of an unusual purchase from the shop called Needful Things. Timothy subjects Mrs Goodhead and her two secretaries to a lustful bout of non-consensual sex. They have no recollection of their ordeal at the hands of Timothy