A story in the Dark Tales Universe
Paul Cliff is an asshole. All of his ex-wives told him that, as had many other females. A "Store Detective", he often preyed on those he caught shoplifting, promising to go easy on them if they were nice to him. Especially the young ones.
In the west, especially among ranchers, kids were commonly farmed out as labor for starvation wages and no wages at all. It was common for a ranch experienced kid to spend nearly as much time growing up with neighbors as it was living at home. Kids were considered free labor. It was simply the way of growing up. It was not common for this to happen to a farm work naive private religious schooled city kid unpinned from any real farm experience or worldly raw life.
When Corinna applied for a position with our modeling agency, she impressed everyone with her loveliness, her poise, and her shy charm. Only one test remained.
When Frannie was 18 1/2 years old she was made an offer she couldn't refuse. (Okay she could have refused but she didn't -- I mean it was the family business Air Arkansas, not the mob that made the offer. One is organized crime the other is a disorganized mess and not illegal.) Sexual topics but no overt sex.
It can get isolating as well as tense on a remote U.S. Marine camp deep in Syria. This is the case at Tiger Base, where the commander, Captain May, and two other Marines have a fetish for fourteen-year-old boys. Boys line up at the camp fence looking for favors. The three Marines let fourteen-year-old shoe shiner Labhan inside the fence to provide services. He does more than that for them.
Libereco is a series of stories about a fictional independent community of Futanari hybrids on an island somewhere in the Kattegat/Skagerrak area between Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Germany that takes place chronologically in a present day current events exclusionary bubble but contains near future science.