Natalie is rude, so her father seeks Bill's help in punishing her. And he does, with spankings and forced oral, vaginal and anal sex. And that is just a harbinger of things to come.
Two girls endure middle school and high school. Their peers give them grief over their looks: they are two red heads in an ocean of black hair. One has no mother, the other's mother is a punitive monster. Sometimes, your hopes for the future depend on that one friend who can understand you and be your rock in the face of cruelty, even violence. This is a short story, a quick read.
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.
Billy Harris signs on as the scout for a cattle drive headed to Abilene on the original Chisholm Trail in 1867. Along the way, he mostly makes use of his much more popular talent with the ladies, and his men friends learn a few things, too. This is a short story with a lot of shootings, but little of it is gunpowder.
While flight testing an experimental Mobile Chronobubble, a malfunction sends Derek and Crystal into an alternative time stream. They must evade capture by the military and escape back to their own time or be lost forever.
Hank and Liz Brewer figured that they had the best job in the world: protectors for people who did not consider themselves able to cope with this new world where everybody was supposed to carry a gun for self protection. The cops were not going to help you, so you had to do it yourself. In this alternate reality, the NRA and the Tea Party had won the day, and your life was in your own hands! See if you would like to live in this version of the USA.
A Story in the Percy Holmes - Detective Universe
"My name is Kate Holmes. I am the ex-wife of detective Percy Holmes and mother of his children. I am also an alcoholic." And that was how my day, every day that I was in prison ended, with an AA meeting. I was serving 10 years for drug possession and prostitution. Well I guess I'd better start at the beginning so you understand my story.