Elemental beings of pure ideas give rise to a daughter whose innocence is threatened as humanity's evolving consciousness brings darker forces into their ethereal realm.
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A teen girl goes through her morning routine—eating, showering, waxing, running—while missing her school days and her partner Robbie.
A childless Southern couple struggling with infertility receives a late-night visit from a mysterious stranger that changes everything.
A young crossdresser leaves his turbulent past behind, starts college, and navigates his secret feminine wardrobe and desires among the coeds.
A soldier returns home injured to find his reclusive, depressed mother under strange house arrest, leading to an intimate and forbidden reconnection.
A teenage boy relocates with his mother to a new city, wrestling with uncertainty about his identity and sexuality as he anticipates starting over at a new school.
A desperate factory worker, unhappy in his marriage, turns to medication to quell his ravenous lust and begins considering seeking a black sex worker for release.
A dissatisfied 40-year-old housewife attempts to reinvent herself and begins exploring new sexual desires and exhibitionist impulses.
In a Tolkien-inspired fantasy, a dwarf woman discovers her betrothed is marrying another and must attend the wedding carrying her heartbreak.
A Chechen fighter spends a final night of forbidden intimacy with his married aide before she martyrs herself against the Russian invasion.
Queen Yavara wrestles with emotional and erotic submission to Elena, whose own transformation under a cruel mentor strains their intimacy.
A homeless man spends a cold Christmas Eve on the streets, haunted by memories of a lost lover as he searches for shelter in a graveyard.
A discontented wife meets a charming stranger at a Vegas bar while her husband gambles, and they exchange contact info.
In the final chapter and epilogue, a man wraps up his complicated relationship with a teenager's sister while letting go of the other woman in his life, guided by fate and difficult choices.
A broken, emotionally numb middle-aged man attempts to find renewal and healing through a solo hike along the Appalachian Trail.
A multi-POV battle epic where Alkandran forces face annihilation on the steps of an arena as their leaders fall and a ragtag group of reserves must rally for one last stand.
A man mourns the passing of his pain-loving partner while reflecting on their past adventures together from his mountainside retreat.
A grieving 20-year-old finally begins clearing out her late mother's belongings and starts to reclaim her life, including exploring sexual encounters with younger partners.
A ghostly former lover haunts the sleeping wife of the man they once shared, yearning to be seen and known after his death.
An HIV-positive Irish girl is sent by her doctor to work as a prostitute in England to avoid infecting Catholic men back home.