A Story in the Naked In School Universe
Dana is an activist honors student with a STEM bent. Teri is an antisocial slash-ficcer starting to successfully publish original works. Mike is a paraplegic smart-ass with a gift for languages. Three teenagers are selected to go through the Naked In School Program at the same time—instead, they go through it together.
Amber Yates is a therapist working on Sierra OneOne. Her task is to help the newly discovered Fingrik transition into society with humans. Sometimes transiting can be quite pleasurable.
Angela Harris eloped and joined the Army. The recruiter said they would be stationed together. They weren't. They got a one-night honeymoon and then went separate ways. It was unlikely they'd see each other for over a year. She got assigned to my section and I had to decide whether to leave her to the wolves or take her under my wing. I ended up taking her under my body. I did not intend to break up her marriage, but it needed to be done.
Part of 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
RichardGerald and I wrote this jointly for Bebop and Nora's "50 Ways to Leave your Lover" event. Since one of those options is a bus, we modeled our story on the classic Hollywood 'meet cute' film "It Happened One Night." Which means that we changed the characters, swapped the sexes, radically altered the plot, and wrote a whole new story. But we DID think about the film while we were trashing it. So as the pitchmen would say: It's exactly like the original except on a train and....
A Chinese-American telepath recounts experiences between 1985 to 2010 as a citizen of a secretive society of similarly gifted individuals.
Readers of Gould's "Jumper" and Cormier's "Fade" will encounter some familiar names and faces. Please note the codes apply to different chapters in the story.