Fiction Stories

A Personalia story
Part of the Personalia universe
Three sisters get the chance of a vacation on a new planet, and they get a major surprise while on their travels, as does their tour guide.

A girl who barely knew her dead mother teaches herself to become her: the voice, the walk, the way she went first at everything. She studies the dead woman until she can be the wife her father is still grieving. And he lets her. She'll do anything to reach the mother she lost, even to the last place that woman is still alive: in the hands of the man who loved her most. A first-person descent into grief, willful blindness, and taking a place that was never hers. Complete.

Justice is back... With some old friends...

Deborah Begley is pregnant from a one-night stand. Her father, is convinced the childis Heath Gladstone's whom he forbade her to see six months ago. Tossed out on the street in nothing but the thin pajamas she’s wearing, what’s a girl to do? She feels lost and abandoned. Doesn’t anyone want and her baby? Heath Gladstone feels lost. is dad has accused him of getting Deborah pregnant and demanding he marry her. No one will believe that the child isn’t his. What’s a guy to do? Help or Don't?

Another story from Kate's Journal
Kate Miller never expected to fall for her cousin John Alderman over Christmas break. When their secret is discovered, it destroys life-long relationships and tears Kate's life apart. But there's another secret she must face or she will lose even more. This story is a novelization (85K words) of two previous Kate's Journal short stories; Cousins at Christmas and A Cousin Alone.

Jacqueline Kirby thought she knew all there was to know about her friend and protege, Joanna Simon. Only to discover that the younger woman had as many secrets as the characters she created.

A The Chronicles of Dan Hayward Story
Cathy needs her dad and meets her new family. Dan proposes to Karen in front of 5,000 people. Brad and Abby grow closer. Abby's dad is introduced to Vicky and later reveals a secret to her... Dan tapped Karen on the knee. She looked at him and he pointed with his right wing up to the giant screen above center ice. The camera was already on her, the screen split in two, showed her and everyone in the arena the message. Surrounded in a heart shape was _"Karen Miller, will you marry me?"_

A The Chronicles of Dan Hayward Story
On this day, Abby has very naughty ideas for her thank you date with Dan that includes them posing as father and daughter.

David meets Helen. There is instant rapport. What could go wrong? Sod's law says if it can go wrong it will go wrong, probably catastrophically. Can they ever beat Sod at his evil game? This is a long, slow meandering story, you have been warned.