A university student pays for an escort expecting romance but gets a no-frills professional encounter.
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An assertive career woman asserts control over her embarrassed live-in partner while demanding to know what he has prepared for dinner.
In 1815 Virginia, a spirited young woman defies her strict puritan parents by pursuing her attraction to the rebellious son of divorced parents, whom they consider beneath her station.
A philosophical meditation contrasting two babies born on the same day—one pampered and planned, one neglected—to explore how expectations shape whether someone becomes a hero or a basket case.
A newlywed teacher reflects on the chaotic family negotiations and cultural pressures surrounding his wedding to Susan.
A high school freshman with a powerful sex drive and impossibly specific standards finally finds a boy she desires, in a confessional memoir of teenage lust and longing.
A young Muslim woman balances cultural modesty with secret desires as she prepares to meet a potential suitor arranged by her parents.