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Michael comes home from work early to find his son and daughter helping each other shave for the swim meet.

Amara, 19, arrives at St. Catherine's Nursing Institute with a Bible and a Ghana-must-go. She wants to be a good altar girl. Chi-Chi, 21, final year Hostel Rep, has other plans. She stares too long. Stands too close. Knows exactly when Amara's breath catches. In a hostel where Warden Agnes watches everything and NEPA takes light every night, Amara is trying not to sin. But some sins feel like prayer.

A former Marine Captain is trying to deal with wounds suffered in Viet Nam while running a struggling business. He discovers his wife in bed with a black man. Life gets worse from there. No 'AI' was involved in writing this story. I always have problems with the codes.

A watch can be exciting even when there is no demon attack...

A Claire Hammer: Already a Whore Story
Chapter 5 of "The Year She Looked Nineteen." The second half of Claire Hammer's gap year before attending the University, set two years prior to NaturalHammer's "Becoming a Whore."

A celebrated geiko is sold to a samurai—full price, no haggling. She expects a gilded cage. Instead, Fuyuki Kazuma hands her a blade and asks her to defend herself, even against him. What follows is a rare marriage built on trust: he teaches her to fight; she teaches herself to stop kneeling. When enemies mistake her for merely decorative, they learn otherwise in blood. A story of a woman who refused to choose between grace and danger—and found she never had to.

This is a Swarn Cycle story. You discover how far someone will go to get off the earth.

This is part of the Swarm Cycle. A little information can go a long way.

An over excited cross dresser, fouls fail of a robber.

An anthology of stories set in and around a residential building, exploring the romantic, sexual, and personal dramas of its inhabitants.