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Some connections can’t be caught on an MRI. For the past few hours, their relationship was defined by cold stethoscopes, sterile rooms, and the rhythmic hum of diagnostic machinery. Dr. Lars is the city’s top radiologist—analytical, distant, and used to seeing people as a series of grayscale images. To him, Sara was just another file, a patient whose recovery he monitored with clinical detachment. But when the final results come back clear, the professional veil drops.

A solitary widower is rejuvinated, discovering what he has been missing when a young, oriental coed comes into his life. This is a revision and rewrite of a story "Good Things Come in Small Packages", by an unknown author.

Seven Army and Navy nurses arrive in Manila in 1941 expecting a peaceful posting. Within weeks, Pearl Harbor changes everything. As Bataan and Corregidor fall, they retreat into jungle hospitals, then Malinta Tunnel, then nearly three years of internment at Santo Tomas and Los Baños—starved, exhausted, and still nursing. One of them will not survive to see the dawn raid that finally sets them free. A tribute to the real Angels of Bataan and Corregidor, and what survival actually cost.

A loner and computer geek, Brandon escapes the noise of a wild, drunken grad party. Solitary and sober, he wanders down a lakeshore beach. The unexpected discovery of a crying girl leads to resolution of adolescent fantasies.

Emily goes for a midnight swim in the apartment pool. Maya is already there.

She wore an office dress that she had transformed into something more: a black pencil skirt that had ridden three centimeters higher than prudent when she sat down, a white silk blouse that revealed the outline of her lace bra, and silk stockings that shimmered under the yellowish lights of the car.

Strangers Jacob and Emily get soaked in an early spring shower and have to get out of their wet clothes.

Orphan joins military is too successful and draws attention of alphabet types, does Spec Ops first and gets medically retired out of active duty only to be recruited by the alphabet types. Survives a shitty mission and meets a female who is as bad ass as he is.

A story in the Wolferton Valley Universe
In the quiet suburbs of Wolferton Valley, a blinding flash lit up the sky seventeen years ago. Nine months later, 143 young women gave birth to extraordinary boys. Silas Thorne is a gifted jock with a body built for sin. Tonight he’s balls-deep in his mother Elara, while his jealous younger sister Mara listens from the next room. One flash changed everything. In Wolferton, forbidden desires run in the blood.

"When a woman dresses as an invitation, it's polite to accept," he said, and without warning, he slid his hand along the curve of her hip until it rested on her stomach. "Your husband must be proud to have such a temple to enjoy."