Ellie is a soldier in a world without governments.A generation ago, a series of financial crises caused most of the world’s governments to collapse, and left many of the people in those countries in terrible personal debt. Since then, the worst debtor nations have been under military occupation by the troops of the debt-recovery corporations, and the worst debtor of all is Měi-guó, the old United States.Ellie is serving in the Afghan Police Action when she receives bad news...

Natalie and Evie are very different people. They are very different in age, and in income, and at very different stages of their lives. Natalie is a partner in a large law firm, and Evie is a law student at university. They meet at a work function of Natalie’s, where Evie is working as a waitress, and begin to talk. Natalie is lonely, and has been single for several years, and is intensely attracted to Evie. On impulse, she offers Evie money for sex.Evie is surprised, and unsure wh...

Natalie and Evie are very different people. They are very different in age, and in income, and at very different stages of their lives. Natalie is a partner in a large law firm, and Evie is a law student at university. They meet at a work function of Natalie’s, where Evie is working as a waitress, and begin to talk. Natalie is lonely, and has been single for several years, and is intensely attracted to Evie. On impulse, she offers Evie money for sex.Evie is surprised, and unsure wh...

Ellie is a soldier in a world without governments.A generation ago, a series of financial crises caused most of the world’s governments to collapse, and left many of the people in those countries in terrible personal debt. Since then, the worst debtor nations have been under military occupation by the troops of the debt-recovery corporations, and the worst debtor of all is Měi-guó, the old United States.Ellie is serving in the Afghan Police Action when she receives bad news...

Helena is shopping, and bored, and not finding what she wants, but then she realizes a helpful sales assistant might actually be flirting with her. Erica agrees to be a best man for her male best friend, and during the wedding rehearsal she meets Cara, one of the bridesmaids, who has some interesting ideas about what bridesmaids and best men ought to do together. Josie is shopping for a new car, and gets more than she expects from the saleswoman, and then something similar happens again, a...

Steph, a photographer on holiday, asks her neighbor to model for her. The neighbor agrees, as long as Steph is as naked as she is. Sophie realizes her new girlfriend doesn’t drink, and doesn’t kiss Sophie after Sophie has been drinking, and wonders what to do. Julianne goes out for a night with her friends, expecting to be bored, but instead she meets Nadia, and then things become complicated. Erin and Lauren spend a night together at the beginning of their relationship, and as other night...

Melissa is surprised when her boyfriend wants to watch her perform oral sex on other men. Naomi’s boyfriend asks her to have a threesome with one of his friends. Bec moves back to her family farm in rural Australia, and is lonely and horny too, while Michelle moves to the suburbs, a long way from everyone she knows, and feels the same. Anna masturbates out of loneliness and boredom, and gets unexpectedly caught, and Nina flirts with her masseur and doesn’t. Sophie and Josh are the couple w...

Short story/novella (25,572 words)Ashley is in a relationship with an older man. She is twenty-three and he is fifty-one and there are times when that is almost unbearable. Ashley loves David with all that she has, but she cannot cope with the idea of settling down so young, before she has even lived. It is selfish and wrong, but she has an affair. David learns of it, and they try to work past it, but the difficulties seem almost insurmountable. Ashley has cheated, but she refuses ...

Holly goes to Pamplona, to the running of the bulls, because she’s a tourist and she does. She meets another woman who is running too, and they feel a connection. And then they have some sex.So worst blurb ever, yes? There’s a reason. I’m carefully not trying to convince you to read this. It’s something of a weird, elaborate joke. And also, at the same time, it isn’t. It has some sex. It has some other stuff. It describes San Fermín. You might like it. Maybe.Anyways, the po...

Short story (5387 words)Michelle moves to the suburbs, and is lonely and isolated, until she meets Eva. Eva is interesting, and bored, and seems to want to be Michelle’s friend. Michelle thinks they’re flirting, too, and contemplates an affair. She almost decides she would, if Eva made a pass at her, but that isn’t what happens at all.Adult content.

Story Story (6845 words)Julianne goes out for a night with her friends, expecting to be bored. Instead she meets Nadia. They flirt, and talk, and Nadia doesn’t seem to mind that Julianne already has a partner, and only wants sex. It seems to be going well until Julianne’s friends leave, and Julianne has to also. She leaves regretfully, expecting never to see Nadia again.But she does. In a police uniform. Giving her a speeding ticket. And suddenly things begin to get interes...

Short story (5758 words)Gemma is out with her friend Josh, vaguely being his wingman. They try to help each other pick up women, and sometimes it even works. Then they start making bets about someone they’ve just seen, and who can pull her, and whether she’s even interested in either of them, and things start getting a little weird. Gemma isn’t sure where it is going to end.This isn’t erotica, just to be clear. There’s no sex in it. It’s more about being friends, and how th...