I noticed the smile on his face. It wasn't his usual cruel, evil smirk. This was new. It was almost like... genuine satisfaction. As if he’d not just taken, but truly received what he wanted. And as I rode that devastating wave, he retook control, fucking up into me harder, using my trembling body as his perfect pleasure tool, and in that moment of complete annihilation, I couldn't have been happier. The thought was a fre...

The hasty rapping at my front door and the soft thud on my patio told me that it had arrived. "Mom!" my younger sister shouted from down the hall, "Someone is at the d-" "Shut up." I cut her off as I ran to the door. I quickly gathered the small package from the patio and shuffled back to my room, my sister eyeing me suspiciously as I pushed past her in the hall. "It's for me," I mumbled as I shut my bedroom door tightly...

The pickup truck cruised alongside me as I walked home from the bus stop. Glancing over at the vehicle, I saw the driver push back the visor of his ballcap. His leer was unmistakable. "Hey, sweetheart, need a ride?" the man called. I looked straight ahead once more and picked up my pace. "Come on, don't be like that!" the truck's passenger hollered. "There's plenty of room in here for the three of us." I swallowed hard, f...

I was in my office, preparing the sermon for next Sunday's service, when Anna appeared in the doorway. "I'm all done with the cleaning, Reverend," she said. Anna and her parents were longtime members of the church. She was twenty and attended a university within easy commuting distance, so she still lived at home. Now that it was summer, she'd volunteered to clean the church every week. I found it rare to encounter someon...

In a time before the internet was ubiquitous and everyone owned a smartphone, before security cameras monitored almost every street, I was a twenty-one-year-old woman alone on a train. It was a late afternoon in October, and I sat by the window, looking out on unfamiliar surroundings as the train made yet another stop. I was on my way home after attending the wedding of a friend. We'd been inseparable as teenagers, but wh...