Violent Stories

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.

A Cliche Story
All of the cheating stories have their clichés - I came home unexpectedly - she (or he) stopped or slowed way down on sex - he (or she) started using anything for an excuse to start an argument - bills from hotels that you had not been to - gas receipts from areas that your spouse wasn't supposed be in. They are clichés because any and all of them have happened enough that they become somewhat commonplace reasons for adulterous divorces. Mine happened just that way.

I will admit it. When I found out I was so angry that if she said anything else, I would have punched her in the mouth.

Elder sister has just attended her younger sister's wedding. Now, she knows all the pressure is on her to bring home a Suitable Man.

My sudden trip to Colombia was prompted by a misunderstanding between my Puerto Rican friends and the Cuban wise guys who ran things down in Little Havana. Now I was stuck to Rosita like glue and loving every minute of it.

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?

One last chance to have a say as a marriage slowly grinds itself to pieces.

A ruined woman savors any touch her Master gives her, no matter how violent or degrading

Short story about a Green Beret's tour of duty in the Iraq War