Zariyah Reed, a 32-year-old single mother, works on a construction crew where she's the only woman and Black person, facing daily harassment. Though she endures their taunts to support her 14-year-old daughter, Teyana, the abuse escalates one day when her male coworkers assault her, leaving her stripped and humiliated. A police officer rescues her, but the emotional toll is overwhelming. Back at home, Zariyah, wrapped in shame and fear, struggles to face her daughter and the future.
Life on the space outpost becomes unbearable for Darius. His stationmate is a real bitch and he longs for contact with real humans instead of a sym he can no longer stand to even look at. But the wait is short, the resupply ship is just hours away.. time for one last beating.
As a fourteen-year-old orphan boy moves west with a wagon train after losing his parents and being taken on by a wagon master with the proviso the boy lie under him, in an encounter with a young, virile savage, the boy learns there are deeper pleasures to experience from ravishment.
This one's an alternative-future-history SF story and it's more than a little downbeat and way grim, with no sex -- so if you're after a stroke story, this isn't it. For any of you that've read S. M. Stirling's Draka series, that was partly an inspiration for this, as was Jerry Pournelle's "Future History" to some extent. George Robert Elford's "Devil's Guard" was also something of an inspiration, as were a few books on the Spanish Civil War.
A young married woman decides to take a trip into the forest behind her home. She was warned by her neighbor to stay away. The cost for her adventure would be expensive. The price tag, her mouth, her pussy, and her Ass.
A story in the Tapestry Universe
We begin this chapter on John's 19th birthday. He has just made the worst mistake of his life and he'll feel the consequences of it. From his lowest point with gravity bearing down upon him can even the wind hold him up? Can he live with his own guilt and grief? How does he keep from breaking when he can't find the cold to deaden his emotions?