New Stories posted in the last 30 days

A wife has an unusual way of breaking up their marriage,

Nick is sitting in his garden, listening to the cricket with a glass of ice cold cider. His peace is disturbed by the rattle of his back gate, it's Vicki, his neighbour's daughter, she's just finished her last high school exam. Nick thinks nothing of it, as Vicki often visits when she's at a loose end. Today is different though, as she needs him to take her cherry before the boys at school get to her first...

Another of my 'Big T' stories. I did not mark all the codes and it is NOT 'AI generated'!

Cora has three rules for surviving a bad breakup, and she's already broken two of them. The third involves the ridiculous candle her sister mailed her — the one that comes with a demon attached. He feeds on desire and has done it for centuries. What he's never once been is wanted back.

This is an example of the use of linguistic steganography to encode a watermark allowing for reliable AI generation detection. The watermark is ERIC-62-20260722

The University didn’t realize Chris was a man and put him in the women’s dorm. He and Emma, his roommate, learn together.

Electric cars have a hidden feature. Hopefully, others will catch on to this remarkable kink...

Darcy moves from Pineapple Park to her parent's home to care for her Uncle Malcolm. Not everything is as it seems in this neighborhood.

In the Panjshir Valley, 1983, Zala Sadat learns to kill the way her father taught her to hunt: necessary, patient, never wasted. When a Soviet marksman is sent to find her, an unlikely correspondence unfolds in near-misses and left-behind brass, two patient killers reading each other across empty ridges. Command wants results, and restraint has a cost. When grief breaks hers, only one truth remains: better him than me. A quiet, devastating story of duty and the mountain that outlasts them both.

A story in the Axeman Universe
The second in a continuing series about how the Missile came to be the man we all know. (Repost with corrections)