A single dad raising his barely teenaged son. The boy needs *someone* to keep an eye him after school and maybe help with the homework. Hey, perfect; a nice young college student from the Midwest.
Chuck Sneyd joins his grandfather Morty in an effort to build a new form of spaceship. Instead of rockets, the ship is to have a new form of propulsion. Instead of explosive fuels, the impeller is electric drive; feed in power, the impeller turns it into motion. If they succeed, any number of industries will suddenly find themselves pushed aside. They are not at all pleased, nor are governments who would like very much to discover how the impellers work!
What do you do when a woman shows up on your doorstep and tells you something that's completely impossible to believe? Like that she met your great great grandfather one time. You invite her in, of course.
Broken Hearts
A moment of clarity is that moment in which you see your life and the truth of it clearly, perhaps for the first time. And afterwards, nothing is ever the same. A husband has a moment in which he realizes thetruth about his dying marriage. This is one of those stories where nobody win.
A From the Aether Comes Life, and Love Story Since last summer, 8th Grader Bill could see them. The reason, he assumed, teen boys randomly sported wood: the creatures. Translucent, blue grey creatures, one per boy, silently teasing and tormenting those in the throws of puberty. His own companion appeared to be a girl about his age, with dead eyes and no soul. Until...
An Entry in the Contest Contest Contest :)
Like most eighteen-year-old males, not quite yet out of high school, and with no idea what I wanted to do with my life, I didn't really think anything exciting would happen to me. Then my mom's best friend asked me to take some pictures of her to send in to a contest she wanted to enter. And something. exciting. happened. Then I had to go to college early, and lost my last summer of freedom, so I was pretty sure nothing else exciting would happen. I was wrong about that too.