Coming of Age Stories

On a girl's fifteenth birthday, one of her gifts is a journal which she uses to record her innermost thoughts. She’s ashamed of her body because she is developing more slowly than her friends and classmates. Little does she know that there’s at least one man who finds her attractive for the very features that make her feel deficient.

Little Melanie has picked up head lice from school. Since her mother works late hours, she usually spends the night at the neighbor's house on weeknights. Jim's wife works nights also, so it's up to Jim to handle the problem.

An Appalachian family has to pull up stakes and move after the coal mine shuts down. On the trip to Oklahoma, cousins Marvin and Jodie find an opportunity to express their love for each other and begin a new chapter in their lives.

When 18 Year old Ryan volunteered to update some aging state owned computers, he never dreamed that they would be located inside of a women's correctional facility, or that he would actually be working with a convicted felon. Now he's on a quest to try and prove her innocence, and bring down the real culprits who framed her. With over $87 million at stake this is certainly one summer vacation he'll never forget.

Anna the young slag with the house to herself pokes around in her parents bedroom. And finds things of interest

Two brothers farmed potatoes together. One had two daughters and, because Covid prevented them from dating, he felt it was his duty to prepare them to be good wives. His own wife agreed. The other brother had a son and a daughter, and whey they found out what their cousins were doing, they felt like they should participate in getting ready for marriage, too. The result was two families engaged in a taboo lifestyle, which worked as well as the farming did. And the farming worked very well indeed.

Karen Reynolds spent the first 13 years of her life on cruise control. Starting at her 14th birthday, things grew more interesting. She had her first period, her first crush, her second crush and then she learned that when you screw up, the nail that sticks up gets hammered.

Embracing Autism Gleefully is the first story in the life of Robert A. "Glee" Gleason, an amazingly intelligent young man afflicted with a unique brand of autism that allows him to communicate in a startling way, culminating with a graduation speech for the ages. Winner of CAW #24 writing competition, he becomes romantically involved with his tutor, Barb. The follow-up story is The Life and Times of Robert "Glee" Gleason. You can view reader's comments over at Bookapy.

A story in the Toby Wakefield Stories Universe
Fourteen year old Rosie Kowalski and her family moves across the street from Toby Wakefield. She becomes friends with Kathy Warren who is having sex with Toby. Kathy entices Rosie to join them in the woods where Toby, having been schooled in sexual matters by Sister Natalie, Mother Superior at the local Catholic Church. Toby takes Rosie's virginity and imparts his sexual knowledge that has so lovingly been passed on to him by the "worldly" nun.(Meet Sister Natalie in "Penguin's Preference").

Please read Jenny's sexual awaking first