Megumi Kashuahara: Stories

Fourteen-year-old Zoey was standing in her bedroom doorway, wearing nothing but those ridiculous Tweedy slippers. Her left hand was raised above her head, propped against the door jamb, and from that hand, a single strand of 3/8-inch sisal rope hung in spirals to the floor. “Come on,” she said. “Tie me up.”

A story in the The Supergirls Universe Universe
Twelve-year-old Gabriella Vasquez sees what others miss — every crack, every exit, every space that tells a story. When families in her Little Havana neighborhood begin disappearing without goodbye, she opens a notebook. What she builds from a scuff mark on a wall and a missing window plant will expose a billion-dollar corporation erasing Latino communities across America. She doesn't fight with strength. She fights with clarity. And she doesn't look away.

Sometimes, a moment of arrogance can reveal a truth no one saw coming. This was true for the school district of Oak Ridge Elementary school at a parent/Teachers meeting over a new controversial children's martial arts class

A Red Ribbon Univrrse Story
She was nine years old, poor, and hungry herself. He was ten, dying slowly outside her school fence. She gave him her only meal anyway. Every day. For six months. He made her a promise the day he left. Twenty-two years later, he kept it. A story about what happens when one child with nothing chooses to see another child with less — and changes the world.

Me and Jimmy have been best buds since we were six. When I turned fourteen, everything changed... Note**Several codes have been withheld to protect the plot

She walked into the briefing room and nobody looked twice. That was exactly how she wanted it. Staff Sergeant Tala Nez, call sign Shadow Wolf, is a Marine Scout Sniper whose classified record hides a capability that has kept her alive through seven deployments. Attached to an elite Green Beret unit in Afghanistan, she is about to face her most dangerous mission yet — not from the enemy outside the wire, but from the traitor within it. Seventy-three confirmed kills. Zero missed shots. One ancient

Eighteen-year-old, gorgeous Biracial Zoey Daniels, survives a car accident that leaves her with a traumatic brain injury and impulses she can't control. After a brutal assault, she's directed to Derek Waters — a senior known for quiet authority and absolute discretion — and asks him to take control of her. What begins as protection becomes something neither of them expected: a slow surrender into the woman she was always meant to be. A story of healing, claiming, and the shape love takes when it

Navy SEAL Lieutenant Commander Sarah Mitchell volunteers for the most dangerous mission of her career: go undercover to expose a predatory network that has assaulted seventeen women at Naval Air Station Fallon. The cost? Enduring the same brutal assault to gather irrefutable evidence. But the conspiracy runs deeper than anyone suspected—reaching to the highest levels of military justice. 1 operator, 17 silenced victims. A family protecting predators for six years. Justice always demands a price.

The passionate forbidden love between a British Duke and a beautiful Calcutta Temptress in the 1860's

A story of two sisters who both became consorts to the same Joseon prince, both elevated beyond their station, both genuinely loved by a man who chose them for who they were. One brilliant and brief. One quiet and enduring. Both essential to the tapestry of a family built from loss.