This is not a stroke story per se. It is a chance encounter, an interlude between a young mother of two and an a older businessman at the Detroit airport. After their flight is delayed - sparks fly between them. How can two people ever be intimate in an airport? This is a romantic tryst and only the reader will find out how they ever got together.
Max and Bianca meet at a nightclub and she's eager to go home with him. But he has a secret - when he makes love, the very fabric of reality is torn apart.
A young man saves a woman from a nasty snow storm and winds up stranded at her house over night. She feeds him and her hospitality grows as they get to know one another.
He helps set up his best friend's little sister's eighteenth Birthday party and later on that night, she changes his life in ways he had only imagined.
Once a year, the gate opens—for Aisha and Elior alone. The garden remembers them, and as vines part and figs split, they answer its call with sweat, laughter, and a hunger sharpened by absence. Among trembling leaves and blooming fire, their bodies meet in a ritual of rhythm and release. What begins with a pomegranate becomes worship and undoing. This is no paradise. It’s something wilder—sacred, erotic, and entirely theirs.