Melanie's boyfriend has sent her a sexy chair for Valentine's Day, but he's halfway around the world, so Melanie asks her neighbor Nils to help break it in.
From the Archives of The Order
It's Pruning Day! Rae, the shopkeeper of Two Vines, has a little surprise for her pet tentacle 'monster', but first she has to deal with The Order. A consentacles story with a twist: a very different power dynamic, somewhat less extreme amounts of plant come than usual, and FEELINGS. (You've been warned.)
Anne's husband had left her for a blonde he met at a party. So Anne turned to the one person she thought she could count on - her friend Jim. A meeting at the coffee shop to explain what happened leads to dinner together. But dessert is waiting back at her place...
A short story about a man named Dave telling his life story to a reporter on April Fools day. Dave has aspergers and doesn't under stand pranks and he tries to under stand jokes and things that are funny but he doesn't quite get it.
Cathy is the typical teenaged girl who feels she has better things to do than her school studies. In detention again, she tries using her "womanly charms" on the teacher!