Anthony, a black man, is the odd-job man for an all-woman group of interior designers. One day he falls asleep on the couch and the women get to wondering about what he really looks like. They find out that, and a lot more.
A single dad raising his barely teenaged son. The boy needs *someone* to keep an eye him after school and maybe help with the homework. Hey, perfect; a nice young college student from the Midwest.
Four Interlocking Stories of Women and their Men. A widower and a divorcee meet and the sparks immediately fly. He's handsome, well-off, and talented. She's a Viking goddess, barely starting her designing career.
A story in the Immortals Universe
The Immortals of Lynsay Sands fantasy series are "scientific" vampires. The biomolecular nanos in their bodies require human blood as fuel, using it to replicate and repair their host. , an immortal teen arrives at her family lakeshore estate for an impromptu summer retreat. Having been caught in traffic, her nanos are demanding fuel. At the family cottage, she gets careless and is seen feeding by a local teen, her fangs in a bag of blood.
As part of a scam a girl falsely accuses a man of rape. He is convicted and spends years in prison thinking only of revenge. And then he is released. He soon discovers that there is more to life than hate.
A From the Aether Comes Life, and Love Story Since last summer, 8th Grader Bill could see them. The reason, he assumed, teen boys randomly sported wood: the creatures. Translucent, blue grey creatures, one per boy, silently teasing and tormenting those in the throws of puberty. His own companion appeared to be a girl about his age, with dead eyes and no soul. Until...
Broken Hearts
A moment of clarity is that moment in which you see your life and the truth of it clearly, perhaps for the first time. And afterwards, nothing is ever the same. A husband has a moment in which he realizes thetruth about his dying marriage. This is one of those stories where nobody win.
A Story in the Wendy's Worlds Universe
Wendy must make a major decision. Very major. After her rescue, in 1964, she meets the man of her dream. Man? Boy. In 2001 she journeys to New York to confer with her broker and...well...