Once, when I was eleven, I locked his bedroom door to keep him from going out, just like he’d begged me, but I didn’t count on his sheer force of will, or on the sheer weight of him against a flimsy interior door. Now he’s about to be banned from the shit places, as well. But I guess my dad was banned from the nice places years ago. The carpet is worn, the lighting is dim, and it stinks of stale cigarette smoke and alcohol. This collection contains three edited second editions stories that were previously individually published, plus one all-new story, by Lisa Henry writing as Cari Waites Stealing Innocents is an exploration of our darkest human impulses, where sex is power, love is horror, and there’s no such thing as a happy ending. Or David, the cuckolded husband who decides the best way to get revenge is to seduce his wife’s barely legal son. Or Drew, the mental patient who begins to suspect his nightly delusions of abuse by his doctor are actually real. Or Troy, the cop whose obsession with saving a brutalized human trafficking victim turns deadly. Where you’ll find people like Danny, the boy who sells himself to pay for his father’s gambling debts and ends up in a situation more twisted than he ever imagined. Those who dare to scratch the surface of ordinary, everyday life may be horrified to find a sick underbelly beneath-a nightmare world populated by villains and victims, predators and prey, where the rules of society no longer apply.
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