It's Christmas time and Stephanie is forced to share her room with her twin brother. She doesn't mind because they find a really great game to play before bed.
Jack has been betrayed, his heart shattered. Can a chance encounter in a fast food restaurant help him find love again? Written for Girl Friday's June 2004 "Fresh Start" Story Fest. (This story was nominated as "Short Story of the Year," "Best Short Story by a New Author, and "Best Heterosexual Story" for the 2004 Golden Clitoride Awards.)
A story set in the Pinwheel Universe
An ice miner from the barren moon of Ganymede gets the break of a lifetime when a UN job placement program relocates him to Valbara – a lush paradise planet with fresh air, clean water, and no need for pressure suits. He soon realizes that navigating the local culture and office politics will be a challenge. The aliens are small reptilian creatures with strange social behaviors whose females outnumber males by 7-1, and he finds himself the unwitting focus of attention in the workplace.
When Trevor starts his career as a massage therapist at the fancy country club his family attended while he was growing up, he never expected that he’d compromise himself so fast - but his ex-girlfriend’s MILF of a step-mother just has a way about her that makes anything feel possible.