A troubled teenage girl wrestles with shame and self-doubt as she is drawn deeper into a seedy world of strip clubs and exploitation.
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A sheltered teenage girl from a once-wealthy family turns to prostitution after her father's suicide leaves them destitute.
A newly divorced high school history teacher in Alabama finds himself drawn into a taboo relationship with one of his teenage female students.
A married man delivers a paycheck to a trailer park woman and discovers two bound teenage girls being 'punished,' pulling him into an unexpected situation.
A high school principal reconnects with the granddaughter of his former teenage conquest, recalling a lifetime of predatory behavior toward girls and women in his orbit.
A teenage girl struggles against her own morality as a boy she desires pressures and humiliates her into sexual acts she initially resists.
A married couple takes over a reform boarding school as headmaster and dean, where their authority over troubled young students leads to exploitative group encounters.
A former college football star now working retail gets a new TV and stumbles into an unexpected personal discovery at his electronics store job.
An autobiographical continuation chronicling the slow decay of estate gang culture and the personal reckoning that follows.
A teen boy wrestles with the drudgery of taking out the trash in his rundown apartment building, narrating his life in a stream-of-consciousness style.
A married man's memories of his once-vibrant Asian wife unravel as a camping incident triggers a dark memory, leading to her devastating mental decline.
A retired grocery store manager recounts how he exploited female shoplifters on probation or parole by coercing them into sex to avoid arrest.
A husband watches workmen queue to use his wife in depression-era Yorkshire after the 1926 General Strike.
A man reflects on his three-year relationship with Emily, from a passionate first encounter to the slow unraveling of their compatibility.
A city-softened country girl returns to her rural hometown of Calving and senses ominous changes—a strange new factory, unfamiliar arrivals—that hint at dark forces preying on the community.
A butler narrates his aristocratic lady's descent into infidelity and prostitution as she entertains lovers and clients while her husband is away.
A wife's increasingly daring outfits and late nights at work push her frustrated, unemployed husband toward cuckold territory in a small Alabama town.
A nostalgic autobiographical tale set in the declining South Wales coalfield towns, introducing a character reflecting on heritage and circumstance as he begins a new chapter of his life.
A man with reality-editing powers skips class to indulge his depraved fantasies with a supernatural cheerleader while his student remains frozen.