Megumi Kashuahara: Stories

A Red Ribbon Universe Story
Twenty-five years after a sandwich saved a dying boy, a woman walks into Seth and Selena's office with a folder and a revelation. She was the hungry child at the fence on their wedding night. She became a surgeon. She has saved three thousand lives. And every single one of them traces back to one nine-year-old girl who gave away her lunch.

Earth Captain Simon Coulter was assigned to o to Cyril Prime to negotiate a treaty with the Cyrilians for aether crystal mining rights. He never thought he would need to marry an assigned wife to do it

A story in the The Supergirls Universe Universe
When tech billionaire Malcom Forbes is abandoned by his attorney mid-trial, facing a murder conviction built on impossible evidence, the courtroom falls silent for three seconds. Then an eight-year-old girl from Ten Pines stands up. Camika Foster has been watching. Taking notes. Asking questions nobody thought to ask. And she's about to prove that the most dangerous person in a room full of powerful liars isn't the one with the best lawyer. It's the one paying attention. I Can Defend Him.

1868 Nebraska. Gunslinger Calder Vance has one day to find a wife or lose his orphaned niece to the courts. Widow LilLi agrees to a marriage of convenience—and becomes the fierce, steady heart of a family neither expected. When a land-hungry rancher threatens everything they've built, LilLi discovers exactly how far she'll go to protect it. A slow-burn Western romance about found family, quiet courage, and love built one patient day at a time.

The widow said she was too old. The scholar said he didn't care. The sister said she'd drink his bathwater and someone needed to do something about this immediately. She told herself thirty-eight was too old for plum blossoms and beginnings and a young scholar who chose Zhuangzi on purpose. She was wrong about all of it. Ink and Longing — a Joseon love story about philosophy, patience, and one spectacularly unfiltered sister who was right about everything from the beginning.

A funny SciFi Farce about what happens when you don't read the fine line on a contract to take in a roommate to improve intersteller relations for a years free rent and a new apartment

These files aren't for tourists, sweetheart." One sentence, and twenty-three of America's most elite operators laughed at the quiet woman in the doorway. They didn't know about Aleppo. They didn't know about the twenty-six missions that don't exist on paper. When the mission requires a 1,400-meter shot at night, in mountain winds, from a position nobody else can make — she says four words: "I'll take the shot." By the time she leaves FOB Echo, thirty-one men who mocked her will salute her at the

Ryker Jamison's mission becomes a nightmare when a wormhole throws his ship onto Kajirae-Gor—a world where uncollared women are hunted. To save his crew, he uses alien biotech collars creating permanent neural bonds. What begins as survival becomes Commander something deeper: four women discovering their truest selves through impossible choices. A story of trauma, healing, unconventional love, and family forged when surrender becomes freedom.

Before she died of cancer, Stephanie Barrett did one last thing for her husband Nathan—she found him a slave. She spent her final months training her young cousin Kiya to love him the way she had loved him, completely and without reservation. Kiya spent a year watching Nathan from a distance before walking into his life with a sealed letter and a truth she had been carrying for two years. "I am the slave she made for you”

A story in the Daughters of the Line Universe
In 1944, the B-29 has a reputation as a flying death trap, and the men assigned to fly it are refusing. The Army's answer: send in two women pilots to prove it can be done. Karen Whitfield doesn't fly to make a point—until the point needs making. When an engine catches fire mid-demonstration, she and her copilot have thirty seconds of procedure between them and disaster. What follows silences every man on the flight line—for exactly as long as it takes them to feel embarrassed about it.