A Swarm Cycle Story
We could lock the Sa'arm down. Our boys at Tulak had proven that. Destroy every ship in the system, then bombard everything interesting from orbit to keep them stuck on the planet. The next problem was cleaning them off the planets, so we could use them. One man may have found a solution...
Straight-laced conservative wife overhears a conversation between her husband and his friend. "Our sex life is on life support", her husband said. So she set about to loosen up and rekindle their sex life.
This is a 12 chapter series covering the high school years of Danny Collins. He begins with his own Summer of 42, when the wife of a soldier in Viet Nam takes him to her bed, teaching him every sexual thing he will need to know to become a master of women's needs. The series carries him through high school and the women who share his bed.
A story in the Sheriff O'Dell Universe
The dry hot wind blew the rope in a circular motion above my head. Around and around; the branch and leaves and sky in the background. My neck burned and I needed to breathe. I needed to use my hands. They wouldn’t move. I needed to breathe. I'd been lynched.
Madeline, unable to stop grieving for her dead husband, boarded a stage coach for the month-long trip to California, where her sister lived. Among the other passengers were two cowboys who seemed to be too friendly with each other. And when a freak accident trapped the young widow with these two men in an old mine, she saw it as her moral duty to heal them of their affliction. The only problem was... they weren't afflicted.
When Sol embarks on a career as a black-market space merchant, he didn't count on the help of an illegal anatomically-correct android. But in this galaxy, you take your help as it comes, and you come when you can. Codes updated as the story progresses.