Discontent, disgust, desperation, can trigger violent reactions. Desperate people do desperate things. Sometimes, their desperation leads to scorched earth tactics. Hopefully a lovely phoenix will arise from the ashes.
A story in the Bondage Dystopia Universe
In the future America, slavery is legal again and people are often forced to choose between that and fates that might be even worse. Not just debtors and criminals are enslaved, however. Meet twin brothers Dan and Dale Orsini, who pick up more than a few slaves, including eager ones, along the way. Plus, it's time for payback to some evil exes.
Angela was a young Hispanic girl who had a bad habit of shoplifting things that caught her eye - much to the dismay of her father who was running for political office! One day at the mall, she is caught with some unpurchased merchandise by the mall security officer. In an effort to avoid getting in trouble and embarrassing her father, Angela agrees to have sex with the officer in exchange for his silence...
This one's an alternative-future-history SF story and it's more than a little downbeat and way grim, with no sex -- so if you're after a stroke story, this isn't it. For any of you that've read S. M. Stirling's Draka series, that was partly an inspiration for this, as was Jerry Pournelle's "Future History" to some extent. George Robert Elford's "Devil's Guard" was also something of an inspiration, as were a few books on the Spanish Civil War.
A To Reign In Hell Story (2) This is a second phase or serial in what I hope to be a lengthy series or anthology featuring Asmodeus, King of Hell and Prince of Darkness, in his mission to conquer the Earth, Cosmos, and Man for sin and demonkind.
14-year-old mixed-race Danny Foster, a free spirit in a Southern town crossed by two rail lines, is burdened by being on the wrong side of too many tracks. Not only is he, along with his single-parent mother, a prostitute to the town's men, but he also risks being swept up in election scandal from his relationship with both candidates. He's about to leave for a free ride to a military academy 25 miles away, but can he get out of town before he's swept off the rails by a sex scandal?
A story in the Haven Tails Universe
David Howard is fed up with his life in the Mafia-controlled state of New Jersey, even if it is the only state with a working government in the post-apocalyptic world that exists since Fireball Day. Between his mob-loving (literally) wife Andrea and his psycho gay ex-friend and boss with benefits, Steven, David is more than ready to call it quits. He just won't get to do it alone.