Reluctantly I accept my Executive Assistant's 15-year-old daughter as a summer intern. Events and a devious imagination combine to result in a most intensive -- and invasive -- education for my new protege.
Mrs O was the lady down the block, strange and disliked and feared; she was different. He felt that way until he lost his ball one day in her garden and really discovered her. He was never the same.
Count Rostovov’s obsession with fourteen-year-old boys in the lead-up to the Russian Revolution may be his undoing unless he changes his attitude toward his prey.
About to graduate high school, Connie is overlooked because of her unfashionable dress and ugly coke-bottle glasses. Then she's introduced to her second cousin, who sees "her" and they bond courtesy of the two aunts who put them together, and provide them with a safe space to canoodle. And then Connie is overwhelmed when she discovers Jim's attribute. You're a princess first, and then you become a queen. A compact little tale of young love.
This is one of my longer stories. Paul has neighbors who he socializes with, before and after his divorce. He is attracted to the wife but remains aloof. When she becomes widowed, he tries to lend support for her and her nineteen-year-old daughter. Consoling them both at different times, during a period of 'pillow talk' the widow tells him about how she grew up and how she met her husband.
Short story set at FSU. John is best friends with Amy, but is secretly in love with her. He won't do anything because he doesn't want to loose her as a friend. Amy has a different idea on the matter and takes it into her own hands. ~NOTE: This is the original, unedited version.~
High school senior Hannah needs money for college. An add promising money for a modelling audition draws her attention. The audition turns out very different from what she expected.
What starts as a happy swinging couple turns tragic. Faced with racing his daughter alone, a father does his best. As she becomes an adult, he turns back to swinging, and attends a Halloween party with a sinister plot. Little does he know that karma can be a royal bitch. Shock, acceptance, and then a double shock rocks this father/daughter team.