First Stories

Fourteen-year-old Christina would never see her parents in quite the same light after what she saw that night. While some children might have reacted with 'Ew' or 'Gross', Christina thought that they were beautiful. Christina was jealous.

A lonely man hires a young woman as a live-in babysitter, and then begins to wonder about the source of her psychological fixation on hypnosis and submission.

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)

A lot of people would like to be someone else for a night. May Bujold was about to get her chance.

It was love at first sight when Annie met her Uncle Henry. She was one year old. Tragedy strikes, leaving him to raise his orphaned niece. Now she wants to be his wife.

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.