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.

All it takes is crossing the mental line to do something that seemed so outrageous before.

During a long summer break a friend's mother takes the time and effort to introduce me into the art of love.

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 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.

Can a teenage boy with mind control talents also have integrity? Hard to believe, but maybe so!

Lucille was 41, filling her empty nest by volunteering to cater to the needs of young people with disabilities. Kanye was young, male, blind - and black. It was a simple 90 day engagement, helping a blind person deal with those things that really needed sight, somethng a lot easier than some clients she'd had to deal with - or was it? Could she cater to ALL of Kanye's needs? How far could she go before she betrayed the trust the agency placed in her?