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
A Character Sketches of Sketchy Characters Story “Bronah? Oh, you’ll have no problem catching up with Bronah. He don’t run from a thing. He walks toward it with purpose and conviction. Question is, you sure you want to? You know how real smart folk tell you that some stuff you have when you get whelped and other stuff gets taught you? When it comes to killin’, he got it from both sides. You seen his arm?” - Ardavrin Gendelam, Town Guard, Pelnagarmo
Fourteen-year-old Terrence Lionel, son of a Jamaica sugarcane plantation owner and slave trader in the late 1770s, is hot for men and gives himself to a big buck slave, is seen doing so by pirates, and then is captured and used by them as well. Terry doesn't mind.