Lazlo Zalezac: Stories

A Story in the Damsels In Distress Universe
Sid's girlfriend knows about the portal to Crossroads. Driven by a minor streak of jealousy, she wants to meet his caretaker. To do that, she has to serve as Hero Companion and journey to Chaos.

It's easy to forget what you wanted out of life once you get caught up in the rat race. The things we wanted when young get forgotten while competing to out do the neighbors. At some point, you just become lost. Does it have to be that way? Not necessarily.

A Donaldsons Story
Melinda is a highly driven executive of a major aerospace company. Life was perfect until she tangled with the Donaldson family - a group of the most arrogant and difficult people she had ever met. After that, life gets a little strange.

A Story in the John Carter Universe
Ed Biggers, bully and cowboy, meets John Carter and changes into a much better man. This is a story about becoming the best person that you can be.

Benny Baker went from being a smarter than average, fourteen year old kid, to being a super genius. It was an overnight transformation in which his speech patterns become more precise, his mannerisms became muted, and his opinions matured. He has a chance to make things right, but he's not sure what that means.

The children have grown up and moved on with their lives leaving their parents behind. After years of focusing on the needs of their children, how does a couple rebuild their relationship?

Be warned -- this is a dark story. It takes two parents to raise a kid, not one parent and an enabler. He's always been the parent, but that's not enough. It's obvious that his wife lets the kid get away with anything.

Denise is a fat woman. Her one and only friend introduces her to a unique weight loss program that helped her lose forty pounds. The only problem is the price she has to pay in order to participate in the program. Already filled with self-loathing, what is the loss of dignity in comparison to the loss of forty pounds?

A woman joins the workforce believing it is necessary to save her family. Six years later she discovers that she is about to lose her family anyway. Facing outright, at times vicious, hostility from her children, she has to fight to regain her place in the family.

A Jade Force of Misera Story
The graduating cadets get their first contract. They are tasked with ending a civil war in Kale. A lowly officer in the pathetic Kale Air Force shows that sometimes spirit counts as much as training.