Two adults just out of military service find each other. One knows who and what they are, the other is unsure. This is how they met and where their lives are taking them on this journey.
A Rachael of Emarukistan Story This is a companion story to the four stories in the Rachael of Emarukistan series, which are set around the ninth century CE. Meghr is introduced in Rachael and the Warlord (part four of the series) when she is around nineteen years old. This stand-alone short story provides Meghr's back-story, and what becomes of her after she leaves Rachael's caravanserai, Wadi Halaf. This story can be read without previously reading any of the Rachael of Emarukistan series.
A Story in the Naked In School Universe
As suggested or hinted in the previous tale, "Step Into Christmas," this is the story of Tamara Kodec, the Bosnian immigrant/refugee student and student council president who was also a willing sex slave to Jack Visconti, the main character of that aforementioned story. She volunteered for the Naked In School Program to please her new master, Master Jack, and was assigned former Amish student Bert Bamburg (aka "Dutch Oven") as her Program partner. Read their adventures in public nudity.
What's a suitable punishment for a rapist? For a rapist who rapes men. A nasty little tale of betrayal and counter-betrayal that will leave you . . . over a barrel.
WRITTEN BY PHOEBE: A woman loses a bet and agrees to being tied naked and spread-eagled to a bed for the night in a dorm room at Arizona State University.
A Story in the Download Universe
This story is a sequel to BENNIE DOWNLOADS MARYA that first appeared on Bewildering Stories issue #181, January 2006, and to SATHYA DOWNLOADS BENNIE that that first appeared on Bewildering Stories issue #201, June 2006. It is not necessary that you read those stories first, but some things in this story will be clearer if you do.
More adventures from the inhabitants both past and present of Ben Stokes's home. Sarah and Gloria have moved out, but who has moved in? And what effect will the newcomers have on the shenanigans that occur there?