First Stories

A story in the Kaire Universe
Being all white was an honor but if you had any other mark it was a curse. Being mostly white only meant my clan would never let me be what all Kaire were, hunters and warriors. I fought for everything and still what I won was given to another. That was when I turned my back on clan and left and that was when my life change. When I was taken prisoner I would have to fight to free us and take our ship back.

When the dark sorcerers began to gather an army to take over the world the white council called for a muster. My mother was a hedge mage and father a farmer... well he is now. He taught me everything I know and now I was going to join the army. Of course I did not expect the magical armor or weapons or the apprentice mage that was to become my mate.

A young boy, one of life's forgotten souls, stumbles into the life of the the woman living down the road from his aunt's farm. They first become friends, then much more. For the first time in his life, he experiences real love.

An eight year-old gets a crush on her thirteen year-old baby-sitter. How does he handle that?

A young girl sees an old Victorian house and meets the elderly woman who lives there. As a teenager her boyfriend joins her as the house plays a part in their coming of age, as, maybe, does a ghost. / (Reviews)

For Halloween: By long custom, Siberian Prince Mikhail Melikov has been accorded the privilege of being offered a fourteen-year-old boy for his permanent service on All Hallows' Eve from one of the towns, in succession, in his nineteenth-century Russian princedom. Prince Melikov has received this privilege for centuries. The young, to-the-manor-born Alexei is this year's offering and Prince Melikov has come to take delivery.

This is the story of a girl named Madison, who is rich, pretty and popular--in short, for a seventeen-year-old girl, she had it all. Then she discovered why she didn't. / (Reviews)

An Uncle Bob Story
The short version of "Packing Clarissa's Genes," wherein 16 year old Clarissa eats what she thinks is candy, but which is really an experimental drug. It corrects hormonal imbalances and she matures rapidly. Her brother and uncle notice and pay a lot more attention to her. A LOT more attention.