First Stories

Two fourteen-year-old best friends, Lily and Jake, spend a sweltering summer together in her bedroom. When Lily gets her first period and is terrified, Jake comforts her. Their naive curiosity about their anatomical differences leads them to mutually undress and explore, culminating in a single, clumsy act of intercourse that bonds them. Weeks later, Lily realizes she is pregnant from that one time, a profound consequence of their shared curiosity.

A story in the Tech and State Universe
Brad invites Monica on an impromptu blind date for his studious roommate Reid. When an ice storm strands her on campus, Monica has no place to stay for the night -- except for sharing Reid`s bed. Reid is single-minded in finishing an important term paper; and he finds Monica an unwelcome distraction. Soon, Monica`s fiery temperament begins to melt Reid`s icy shell, and they become mutually attracted. However, both have skeletons in their closet that threaten to derail their budding romance.

Billy and Sarah are having an after school snack when he asks her the most ridiculous, artless, question in history.

Newly Weds in a Small Indian Town.

The medallion of Zulo strikes again. This time two friends switch, but what happens then? Will everything be ever right again?

A surprising, yet tender relationship forms between a loner and a young girl in the Canadian wilderness.

Mom gets surprised. In honor of Mother's Day.