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.
A war hero lives for ninety years and saves an alien. They are so grateful they offer him another life. At their urging he chooses to become a beautiful bisexual female. She has her share of affairs and is successful in business.
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.
When sisters, Millie, 20, and Debby 17, each read the other's diary, they end up in an astonishing cat-fight. Fate laughs and they accidentally end up handcuffing themselves to Debby's bed. That's when they learn the truth. Neither one keeps a diary! Only one person was diabolical enough to set a trap like this. Their horny 15 year old brother Billy! Fate nearly ruins the family after the girls, and their MOM, end up pregnant with Billy's babies. Can fate also forgive, and save them all?
A Simon and Trudi Story Simon's life continues to grow in complexity. On the one hand, he is interviewed by Jemma's parents. On the other, there is a knock at the door in the middle of the night and there, on the doorstep, wearing just a jacket and a over-sized tee-shirt, is Trudi, bringing with her the night of Simon's life...
And now for something completely different. Once upon a time, Bob Fischer was a professional hit man, a torturer and psychotic, emotionless murderer. He was also a parent any child would love to have and a genius inventor, making multi-millions on his patents and who just happened to live in Paradise. Note that Garrigeld Island, Bender Bay and Bungun don't exist. Don't you just wish they did? And all this is written archetypally in Australian.
Like all my stories, this has religious overtones. If you don't like that, don't read it! It's a romance with a science fiction twist thrown in. Some different directions for them from other scifi treatments. Happy endings are nice things.
A romance with aliens involved! Two college students meet thanks to a strange message. Their stories emerge as they get to know each other and the alien. It has religious overtones. I hope you enjoy the ride!
For some reason, I was moved to review and then revise this story. RG. Now (2/23/16), I'm beginning to work on a sequel.