Leave your teenage daughter with California hippies for a four months and you'll get back a different girl with a tattoo she can't show you. Add an embarrassing accident while driving her home, and you'll have a prickly situation on your hands.
It's Christmas Eve, and your beloved author hears a tapping as if someone gently rapping, rapping at his fireplace door in this Edgar Allan Poe-m parody for the holiday season.
A Story in the Wynter/Trailer Park Universe
Mandy Kuczynski sends her sullen, angry teenage daughter to spend the summer with her outcast twin brother as her punishment for both, stubbornly refusing to recognize that both are not what they seem. Thwarting Mandy's intentions allows Uncle Randy to discover the real person behind the sullen anger and sow the seeds of mutual respect, and Niece Cheryl to discover the truth about the real Randy Long.
The Soviet Union's sexiest nuclear scientist uses both her intellect and her shaved babushka to resolve problems. Story codes are typical for the entire series and not necessarily for each individual story.