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A 22-year-old traveler and an older professional engage in an unauthorized, intimate encounter within a secluded airport restroom during an extended flight delay.

The streets of this New York City are gritty and the struggle to live there is tough. A person needs a college degree and a bio chip to get a job that pays the rent. An optician’s salary is not enough without roommates. Tor fights, but a chip, a dame, and a crime, plunges him into the underbelly of the city, a world he never knew existed. A Noir.

A woman finds that her husband cannot have sex; she seeks counsel from her neighbour

A Jamie Story
Jamie needs to have the autumn light have its way with her. Illustrated.

The letters were drowned in 1987. One of them is addressed to her. In her own hand. Mara Voss restores water-damaged archives — until a box from a flooded 1987 house yields a letter in her handwriting, dated this month, warning her about a man she hasn't met yet.

I read a newspaper article this morning that Beverly Whipple, “a nurse, psychologist and sex educator whose 1982 book about the G-spot encouraged a generation of women to search for their erogenous zones,” died earlier this week. In her memory I uncovered this little story I wrote a couple of decades ago.

A Bakery Gambles Story
Marcus and Elena have continued to compete with the prize being food sex, but Elena has problems. Can they solve her problems or are they too busy eating whipped cream off of each other.

When a deadly fungus turns the Olympic Peninsula into a spore-choked wasteland, reclusive ex-logger Noah Carson guards a rare safe grove. Botanist Willow Hayes may hold the key to a cure, but finding it means entering infected territory, facing ruthless raiders — and risking the one thing Noah cannot bear to lose again: his heart.

Mom can't sleep without son.

Gina wakes up and starts a new day. Her brothers John, Paul, and George help.