Reluctant Stories

A follow-up to Unnatural Acts, by Celena, my other pen name. Although it's a follow-up, or sequel, it can also be read as a standalone story.

Student/Part-time Library employee, working during the slow period between Christmas and New Years, finds a teen girl reading a sex magazine and masturbating in the library. He decides to help.

A teenage girl is coerced into a twisted surrogacy arrangement by her father, leading to a harrowing journey of manipulation, secrecy, and the unraveling of her family’s dark desires.

Young recently married Kelli Prichard watched her husband leave for three days on business. Four fugitives from justice invade her home and other things.

In a quiet suburban home, 15-year-old Warren discovers he can stop time with a single surge of anger — a power he first uses for petty revenge against his tormentors at school. But when the ability turns toward his cold, beautiful older sister Julie, what begins as cruel humiliation spirals into something far darker and more intimate. As Julie's mind fractures between shame, denial, and growing obsession, her resistance crumbles — until the line between dream and reality disappears completely.

A young American teenager goes to Istanbul to spend a summer with her aunt and uncle. At first resistant, she experiences a lot more than just culture shock when her aunt introduces her to pleasures beyond her imagining.