A story in the Tech and State Universe
Les is a sophomore engineering major who has just been dumped by his girlfriend, Lori. Although hurt and not ready to meet someone new, Les caves in to his roommate's suggestion that he have a blind date with Donna, one of Lori's friends. The evening turns out poorly. Despondent, Les composes an email to Lori that backfires badly. Sensing malice in how Lori is treating him, Donna attempts to intervene.
Pete's enjoying a right of passage - his first time driving alone, with his parents out of town. The flashing red and blue lights of patrol cars a few blocks away would seem to bode ill, but a busty coed fleeing the raided party could make those lights an omen of something incredible.
A story in the Fast Clone Universe
As people spend more time online texting and messaging. The I don’t know how to interact with real people syndrome kicks in. It is simpler to have a relationship with a sex doll or sex android then put up with the complications of a real relationship. However, the need for real physical intimacy is still there. Introducing the fast clone.
Wanting to serve was how it started. Taking action and embarrassing my commanding officers was how my career ended. Of course when the federation declares war on my race and kills everyone on my planet it deserves an answer. My name is Stalker and if it is a mage war I know how that is done.
A Clar war Story Close to the end of a second tour of combat in Clar the war had pushed them almost to their northern border. The fighting was more fierce but now even those Clar in the south were joining the fight. A simple night patrol and ambush turns into something else when a young Clar general is captured. First he was not armed and had come out looking for us to surrender. Second was he gave up enough intel for us to strike and break the enemy's lines.
This is the original Micky Dolan story. Mike returns to Ohio from Florida in an attempt to rebuild his life. He is fighting temptation while apparently having success in rejoining normal society. Invited to a gathering at his brother's house, he learns that the beautiful Anna Maria will be there. He first encountered Anna Maria three years previously, when she was just eleven years old
Ahmed ibn Malik's Saracens are investing the Heights of Hattin in late twelfth-century Palestine. The Crusaders come out to parley, led by Guillaume de Chauvigny, bringing his three sons. Malik sees Chauvigny's 14-year-old reddish-blond and handsome son Andre and declares he must have him as a virgin. Turkish chieftain Yusuf bin Salah captures the boy and does everything he can to debauch him while leaving him technically a virgin for Ahmed's pleasure. Andre has his own secrets though.