A From the Aether Comes Life, and Love Story (4) Four years have past. Four years of hiding Ai from the world. Four years of growing, learning, changing... are they ready for the change in Ai?
In the future, humans have "outgrown" the need for physical contact. Although a very few, the genetically defective, still crave the touch of others, skin-to-skin contact is forbidden. Astrid is a defective, struggling to survive in a society which forces her to deny her identity and suppress that which comes naturally, until a chance encounter changes her life forever. (Note: Story codes are added as the plot progresses)
Gina and Liam became instant friends the weekend they became across-the-hall neighbors. Five years later, when Gina locks herself out of her apartment, she relies on Liam to help her out. Eventually, they will help each other travel down the path of healing and discovery.
A literary version of candy corn, this mercifully short story straddles the delicate distinction between horrific and horrible, until it finally falls off and lands on the wrong side. Readers, ye be warned!
Was she what I wanted in a wife? She seemed to have it all. This story could fit into a number of different catagories. I didn't mark them all, wanting to hold back a few surprises
A Special Forces vet goes on Vacation in the Superstition Mountains of Arizona. While there he meets and befriends a strange girl who is more than she seems.
Devlin is addicted to sex, and so is her next door neighbor. As she finishes high school and starts college, will this continue? And what of her boyfriend and his religious family?