Reluctant Stories

The warm-up girls in the swinger club are wearing devices that make them instantly aroused when requested.

A Soft Drinks Story
The hard stuff can get you into a world of trouble, so best stick to soda, as young Tricksie is soon to discover. Illustrated.

A young mother signs a contract for a second job. Forty dollars an hour. Three nights a week. The catch? She must remain naked forever—at work, at home, everywhere. No exceptions. Now her husband and daughter are hostages. And the gallery won't let her leave. Ever.

Sophia Hanson, 14, faces the excitement and fear of starting high school without her older sister Maddie, who’s leaving for an exchange program in Kalvovia. Known for its minimalist lifestyle and philosophy of a “natural state of nothingness,” Kalvovia intrigues and unsettles Sophia. Maddie’s departure shatters Sophia’s hopes of relying on her for guidance, leaving her to navigate high school alone while grappling with the mystery and strangeness of her sister’s new adventure far away.

Clive Tanner is humiliated by a girl when a juvenile, and the shame never leaves him, but it also excites him. In later years he attends an interview for a job, and finds that the girl who shamed him will become, not just his boss, but his owner.