A colony left on a remote island on an otherwise uncomfortable world, seeks to call the starship MOM back to rescue them. An intermission tale in A Second Helping story..
A man develops an unusual side effect to an antidepressant: He can read minds. He uses his gift to earn money and to fight crime, but mostly he uses it to locate and pursue a variety of sexual opportunities. His mind-reading gift introduces some subtlety to the encounters.
Halloween-2012
Jack was orphaned as a toddler when his parents were killed in a car crash. His wife Janice and her sister Janelle were also orphaned at a young age. Janice and Janelle's step-mother, an adept of "The Old Ways", is going to hold a seance on Halloween to try to contact the two sets of parents for her daughters and son in law. Will she be able to contact the parents who had passed on so many years ago? What else will happen? Some codes omitted to avoid giving away the end of the story.
In a stone age setting, men are of the land, women of the sea. But when they meet for sex, their minds merge. When a boy or girl comes of age, there are no more secrets. One young man has a terrible secret, and survives after his successful quest to find a young woman with a secret just as terrible.
Sex and politics by wise and erotic metaphors of collections (veneries) of animals
While a collecton of crows is a murder, a set of owls is a parliament. That seems most appropriate for a group of wise people who influence politics, and help Hal correct his unfortunate virginity. Getting rid of it, and nurturing him along with the other owls, makes for a happy band of brothers and sisters, moving the political stables in the best of directions.
A story in the Sexual Politics Universe
This is an interfaith encounter where an intelligent young man taking unnecessary revenge by science and tech and womens are facing unnecessary changes in their body, or can understand with the term "extreme body modification"