It was a lovely sunny summer evening, but Penny felt rather gloomy. She was walking home from work—she liked those hour-long solitary walks and preferred them to the crowded bus—and, as always, she couldn't help but notice all the happy couples around her. Shit, all her former classmates have been dating since school! Some of them are even already married! And she... Penny sighed. No matter how much she wanted to, she cou...

You could call me a dirty pervert, but I'm really into paper books, since I was a little boy. What's the big deal about paper books, you'd say, everything's digital and online now, and I'd say you don't get it at all. Screens don't give you that solid weight in your hands, that unique smell of old paper and typographic ink, that feeling of the pages against your fingers that have been turned by hundreds of people before y...

In the morning, Nyoka had a fantasy dream. Her party of adventurers almost made it to the Demon King's castle, but the final encounter proved too difficult. The demons had killed all the party members except Nyoka, and they grabbed her, tore off her clothes, and laughingly set about gangbanging her. The first demon thrust his huge dick into her pussy. Nyoka screamed, writhing in his hands, but instead of pain, she felt sh...

This story began at the Genetics Lab's impromptu birthday party. There was just about everybody, that is, about two dozen young and promising scientists, drinking, dancing, playing video games, and engaging in drunken chitchat. "C-consider sexual behavior dimorphism..." Charles did his best to make his point. "Our s-species males show persistent motivation but only episodic cap-pacity, while the capacity of fem-males is v...

I started taking these notes because Dr. Brown asked the four of us to write everything down. "We're making history here," he said. "For the first time, we are not just enabling or improving existing systems, but creating an entirely new organ. Your journals are the historical documents!" "Therefore," he added, "we do not know who will read them, when, or what their knowledge of the context might be. So explain even the m...

Ivy was completely unprepared for the incident. In one moment, she was driving to work, gathering her notes for an upcoming interview. The next, the large trailer to her left blew a tire, lost control, and crushed her light car. The airbags deployed but were of little help. The last thing Ivy remembered was a terrible pain from her crushed bones. She did not even have time to scream. She came back to her senses, feeling v...

Clara, a young girl, is a waitress in a bar. She is slim, pretty, and good-tempered. She is at home on her day off when her phone rings. She sees the caller's name and lights up. "Hello? Hey, Jake, what's up? Sure, what's on your mind? What? Break up? Why?!! Some space? You're sorry? That's all you have to say? After six months of dating, you dump me over the phone?!! Someone better? Like who? Like that blonde cheerleader...

"Watch ooout!" Mika entered the laundry room holding a pile of dirty laundry raised above her head. She dropped the pile on the floor and started stuffing sheets and duvet covers into free washing machines. Sarah and Jay, who happened to be in the laundry room, began to help. By the old tradition, this hotel network employed young girls as maids, from eighteen to twenty years old. The payment was decent and the duties wer...

Chapter 1. The Antique Shop Hannah did not choose it. She was just wandering through the streets filled with small shops and restaurants, killing time before the plane back home and looking for places to spend what was left of her local currency. She pushed the door of the shop on impulse, perhaps attracted by its mysterious appearance (but then again, about half the shops there had mysterious appearances), perhaps just b...

Maya, Olga, and Lina are colleagues and friends, they are nice and well-built girls. Their friendship is close enough, occasionally they go to the movies, the beach, or dance together, and sometimes they meet in the evening for a chat over wine and coffee, but nothing more serious. They live alone, without relationships at the moment. And then one day they go on a two-week vacation together in a resort, sharing a triple r...

Dora always despised her fat body, comparing it to an aerostat. Conversations about body positivity made her either sad or irritated, depending on her mood. By the time she was thirty-two, she had tried every means of losing weight, including some dangerous ones, and gotten nothing. She still weighed 120 kg, and half of her body was excess fat. So she gave up. She considered herself extremely unattractive (of course, ther...

On a warm summer morning, Kira leaves home to visit her friends who live on the other side of town. Danberg is a small resort town near the sea that takes about three hours to cross, so Kira decides to walk. She is naked as usual; naturism is widespread in Danberg. Today she feels strange. She feels dizzy and has trouble concentrating. She sees people around her, but they don't seem to be paying attention to her. She trie...

Lara, a young human resources manager, meets Maria at the campus entrance. As in her previous interviews, Lara is barefoot and wearing only a light dress. Maria could bet there is no underwear. With her casual jeans, thick T-shirt, and running shoes, Maria feels a bit overdressed next to her. "Welcome aboard." Lara smiles. "Come on, let me show you around and give you some final information." The campus is small and cozy,...

An alternative future. Humans have not invented stable artificial intelligence or consciousness uploading (their software is stuck in the 2000s), but they have made great strides in modifying and augmenting the body. So instead of robots, they have cyborgs. Cyborgs are made from people, it's a completely voluntary process. They give up some of their humanity and versatility in exchange for a longer life, a stronger body,...

Anita is ten years older than Tamara. For as long as they can remember, the sisters have lived in the Slums, the worst slums in San Jose. Their parents came to the city when Anita was a few years old, hoping for a better life. The parents had bad luck and ended up in the Slums. Anita and Tamara grew up among the local children, who were as strong, agile, and ruthless as they were. The other kind did not live long in the S...