Tom is invited over to his friend Doug's house to swim but when he gets there, Doug has gone out of town. Doug's mother, Kathy, invites Tom to stay and she makes it more than worth his time.
My contribution to the ASSM Historical Challenge. This story is set in Siberia in 1919, depicting the love between two 'comrades' during the Russian Civil War.
A volunteer from the 'Worker's and Peasant's Army' finds a woman in the snow, half dead from hypothermia. Dismissing the suspicians of his comrades, he is determined to discover the truth about this woman. Despite what that truth may cost him.