New Stories posted in the last 30 days

No one changes overnight. It takes time and trust.

Nykkyo Kyhana is an ordinary guy: He has a boss, a job that's a grind, a wife who doesn't understand him and a high-maintenance girlfriend on the side. He just happens to hail from another planet -- one 200 lightyears from Earth and with a history that's inextricably entwined with Earth's future. He is sent to Earth to gather plants for his homeworld's agriculture. That mission becomes far from mundane when he meets a woman and realizes his civilization's survival may hinge on her fate.

3 short stories of my recurring character 'Lucy', who steals the boyfriends of her daughter 'Susan'. They are loosely based on real people that I know, and some of this really happened.

A devoted and chaste widow of a Hindu Brahmin family mourned the loss of her husband while her caring son-in-law tried his best to comfort her. Though torn between her traditional upbringing in a orthodox family and her guilt, she ultimately chose to embrace the newly introduced changes.

She's twenty-two weeks when Cole comes home for Christmas. Both families at the table — seven chairs, her mom's idea, the gracious thing to do. The house empties the day after. He finishes with both hands flat against her belly, feeling through the skin for what he made. She stays against the counter until his car would be back in two hours. Nate comes by that evening. He doesn't know. *Fifth part of One Shots: Alicia.*

A grade 10, homeschooled, protected, girl, convinces her parents to allow her to attend public school. Unexpected, she meets Alex, in the first class. Warning: Heavily implied incest, femboy, cross-dressing

Emma and David's family vacation ends in terror when an unexplained light tears them from Earth. Trapped aboard an alien vessel with their infant daughter held hostage, they are forced into a chilling experiment where love, survival, and humanity are tested beyond imagination.

Spain 1494. Rescued from death at the hands of the Inquisition, Jeannia is magically hidden inside Maristela’s golden bracelet. But things go wrong. Unable to escape, Jeannia begins her five century long adventure as a genie, helping to achieve desires and performing services for a succession of wearers of the bracelet. Some of those services are honourable, but others mean Jeannia must steal or procure sexual partners. Can Jeannia ever escape the bracelet, or is her doom to serve for eternity?

My mom struggles with her urges. I'm her son, but I'm a man as well. We are close, is that enough?

What if Carlos Hathcock had a counterpart in Vietnam he never knew existed? Marisol Cortez learned to shoot before she learned to read — first on a Guatemalan coffee farm, then as a teenage guerrilla sniper. In America she becomes a trauma nurse, then an Army officer with a secret: the CIA needs her rifle as much as her hands. Sent to hunt a sadistic sniper terrorizing Marines, she must trust that patience is the only weapon that matters.