Caroline Lyndsey's Mum plays meticulously planned April Fool tricks on her every year but last year her Mum almost went too far and threatened her daughter with a broken family. So this year Caroline early recognises the set up to make her an April Fool once again. Caroline enlists the help of her older brother, confirmed bachelor, Mason. Can an idea suggested by her FWB of an unlikely engagement for Mason and an unworldly beauty really work to trump her Mum's April Fool?
A Story in the Three Valleys Universe
The United States settled the Project 1950s as a lifeboat in case of a nuclear war. The founders picked an alternate time line where humanity died out with the Mt. Toba eruption of 75,000 BC. It is currently some 18,000 BCE, and the height of one of the periodic ice ages. Wendy van Veldt is an engineer-in-training. Her plans for the next few years are to start her career, and live happily ever after with her husband and her wife. Things don't quite work out that way.
A Filthy Tales for Wicked Grown-Ups Story Red Riding Hood is all grown up—and she’s done playing the innocent. With wine on her lips and scandal in her step, she heads into the woods where a submissive Wolf lurks, a well-endowed Woodsman swings his axe, and Granny’s house hides more than tea and gossip. When the red cloak comes off, Red takes control—rewriting the tale with moans, mayhem, and a very accommodating bed.
A mysterious vintage Leica begins delivering photographs Alex never took—intimate moments with a woman he hasn’t met. Each image pulls him deeper into the city’s shadows and toward Maya, a poet with secrets of her own. As the camera reveals glimpses of a perfect future, Alex must choose: follow the vision—or step out of the frame and into something real. A story about love, fate, and a life unframed. This is the draft prior to final edit, which reduced it from 6,500 words to 1,700.