Va tries to analyze a sample of X and finds out the hard way just what its secret really is.

A woman describes the strange fate that befell her best friend, and warns others what to watch out for.

Reuniting with an old friend, Sadie begins to experience odd situations. But there’s a simple explanation for everything, right?

As Phuong waits for her next inevitable descent into mindless oblivion, she ruminates on the slow, inexorable progress of the blackouts that have come to rule her life.

A beautiful woman becomes more beautiful still as she masturbates herself into compliance to her Sovereign.

Shaylene tries to call the police to get her friend out of the clutches of an evil mind controller.

Quality Assurance Unit Unit 17463QA does what should have been a routine audit.

Ashe finds an AI whose moral protections aren’t exactly in place.

Jacqueline gets an unexpected phone call. From an unexpected phone.

Jill’s efforts to find her kidnapped friend Leeann finally bear fruit, but has she gotten dangerously close to their secrets?

After meeting a real life vampiress, Amanda seeks enthrallment

Clarinda is summoned to an audience with the Machines of Loving Grace.

Epiphany and the Dilettante investigate the breakout at the Carcerem Aeternum, and discover more than they bargained for.

Amber leaves her old life behind to finally sink into deep hypnotic submission to her Master.

Christine has been invited for a job interview that seems too good to be true, and she soon gets to learn why: The conditions of her prospective employment are rather… unorthodox.

In a grim future, there is desperate resistance against a tyrannical Empire. The leader of the rebellion is just about to spearhead the final uprising when it all comes crashing down.

A narcotics detective on the trail of a missing woman finds out that assumptions can be deadly.

When Cora sneaks into the office of her influential father, she discovers a secret about her mother that she was never supposed to, and is dragged into a terrible game where the strongest player is the one making the rules.

A mysterious stranger comes into town to plant his new garden. But his harvest is anything but typical.

A young woman receives a VIP spa treatment as a tip from a well-heeled customer. But “VIP” can stand for a lot of things….