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!
In theory, my sister came to live with me at college to keep an eye on me. That's what I thought. What she did, though, was use what she learned about me to blackmail me into letting her go wild. That didn't work out too well for her and if I hadn't been there she'd have been raped. I saved her from that fate. That's what a big brother is supposed to do, right? And when she said she was still shook up and scared and wanted to sleep with me, I thought that was pretty normal. But it wasn't.
A Story in the Brother & Sister Love Universe
I was inspired to write this after seeing, the unintentionally incestuous sounding coffee commercial on TV, where the little sister puts a ribbon on her brother and says, "You're my Christmas Present!"
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...
A Story in the Dizyntk Imperium Universe
Freighter captain Timothy Ryan decided to move to the Dizyntk world of Trellken two years ago. He never imagined what was waiting for him. NOTE: Not part of the main story.