The incident; Justine, who had so skittishly jumped when propositioned, when lightly touched, Justine, who had been so outraged to be patted on the bum when in her waitress outfit; now, in the atmosphere of that house, the same Justine had done the opposite, had suppressed her nervous reaction, her outrage at such behaviour. [Read More]

Estimated reading time: 13 minutes; 2600 words.

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He held her, then, curled on his lap, and said to her; 'Cry. Cry now. I want to hear your pain and shame, your fear and despair.' [Read More]

Estimated reading time: 20 minutes; 4200 words.

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If the room was almost overwhelmingly grand, this was more or less as expected. What was not expected, what made Justine's belly clench was that she recognised several of the people around the table, and that their faces generated strong emotions in her [Read More]

Estimated reading time: 20 minutes; 4300 words.

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It was one thing thinking about being used as I had been last night; to accept, in the abstract, in the peace of the morning, looking into the mirror, that this was going to be part of my life; it was quite another to have this stranger tell me, so brutally, make it so clear, that these people were not going to do any pretending about what was really going on, what they wanted me for. I was going to be a whore for them, with no sugar coating at all. [Read More]

Estimated reading time: 9 minutes; 2000 words.

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It was beginning to be a little of an obsession with her, wondering if, before the summer was out, one of them would find a way to proposition her, and if she would find it possible to say 'yes'— not just freeze like a silly little almost-virgin. [Read More]

Estimated reading time: 9 minutes; 1900 words.

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Some AI images too tasty to hide away [Read More]

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes; 700 words.

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Stefan had made his decision, and this conversation only reinforced it. She was suitable. Her chances of having a meaningful life were better his way. Even if it would be the sort of meaning that he appreciated, and very different indeed to the kind of 'special' that Ulya had hoped for her child. [Read More]

Estimated reading time: 12 minutes; 2400 words.

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The unacceptable reality, the truth which she cannot hide from herself, but also cannot endure, is that it was her who had asked the questions. Her who had driven it— at least at the start. That as soon as she had stopped responding, they had suggested a change of subject. [Read More]

Estimated reading time: 9 minutes; 1800 words.

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It was awful, awful, to find herself so frightened, so pathetically subservient to Nadia, to experience such stress over such small disapproval, to have been so completely and effortlessly subordinated; but there was nothing else in Odile's body but a desperate, humiliating desire to please. [Read More]

Estimated reading time: 10 minutes; 2000 words.

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