Part of 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
This is part of the '50 WAYS TO LEAVE YOUR LOVER' event. I posted it well in time, but... it didn't appear. So I'll try again. This is a story about a summer holiday - sun, sea, sand and going on a cruise liner for a week. Nice? Perhaps for some. A duet for one.
Ariel ("A") hated her name, and she didn't fit in at high school. Parentless, her grandmother, Lucy, raised her. A convinced Lucy to date Claudia, but disaster struck when Claudia's ex spirited her daughter to TX, leaving only Ben, her son. A and Lucy supported Claudia & Ben, found them a lawyer, and become their lovers. A intervened in an attempted rape, thwarted by the store clerk, a retired marine. After their junior prom, Ben was kidnapped, with A to the rescue.
A call comes in, and the action starts. There is something rotten in Vero Beach. Thefts, betrayals, wife abuse — and a man on the run. Evil can run, but it can't hide. Will justice or revenge prevail?
Separated from his wife Richard returns home to live with his widowed mother. Sex with his mother has always been a fantasy and when he finds illicit sex tapes of his mother he is tempted to use them as leverage to coax her into having sex with him. His mother's friends also take an immoral interest in Emily's hunk of a son.
A young college teacher has a run-in with four tough female students. They turn her life upside down, and with each passing day she sinks further into degradation and desperation. There's violence in the story, but it's not a story about violence. It's about intimidation, fear, humiliation, and how much emotional trauma a person can endure before doing something desperate. The 1st chapter and a half have no sex, but then it's plentiful.