Millie's Vast Expanse Offered up for your approval, the life and times of one Elizabeth "Shortcake" Dyer, a woman slight of stature, with an enormous intellect, who pursues retribution with a dogged determination that would make a bulldog proud. A deeply scared woman who never wallowed in self-pity but channeled her rage to helping others. When she ran into brick walls in the pursuit of justice, she manufactured vengeance, for, after all, vengeance has its own sufficiency.
A young man, taught to follow orders, has to make a choice for himself. That will change his entire life. It is not easy but his girlfriend has always stood by him. We get some background in the early part, but when he begins to question the life he has been living, something happens that is more important. Will it cause his soulmate to leave him? What will the future bring now? What a lot of men could only dream of, will cause some real soul searches as to why he did what he did.
A husband and wife get stuck in an elevator with a flighty and somewhat frazzled paralegal. As they wait for the elevator to be fixed they find out there's more strangeness to the paralegal than meets the eye. More, even, than her pink hair...
A conquistador searches for the drug of immortality in the jungles of Central America. What he finds is not at all what he expected. A tale of horror that spans 500 years.
Divorced for four years and deprived by the courts from being in contact with his daughter all that time, Jerry gets a call from his ex, complaining that their 15-year-old has run away from home. A few days later she's at his door. Because his wife is fed up with their daughter she agrees to give her up if Jerry will take her in.