First Stories

Jeremiah Bartholomew, a 13 year old kid from NYC, winds up in show business in Texas in 1870, billed as the best pistol shot in all of Texas. He may be, because he's already killed 2 men with his gun. Join him and his friends, Jake, the snake oil salesman, and Sally, the exotic dancer, as they roam about Texas trying to make an honest dollar.

Fourteen-year-old Meghan is thrilled to be going to visit her sexy Aunt Nicole. She runs a company that makes designer bikinis for teens and Meghan harbours a secret longing to be a fashion model. It could be the perfect opportunity if only she can persuade her mom to play along!

A girl who barely knew her dead mother teaches herself to become her: the voice, the walk, the way she went first at everything. She studies the dead woman until she can be the wife her father is still grieving. And he lets her. She'll do anything to reach the mother she lost, even to the last place that woman is still alive: in the hands of the man who loved her most. A first-person descent into grief, willful blindness, and taking a place that was never hers. Complete.

My daughter is fixing me up with the Mother of her best friend, then her best friend, then she wants to join in.

A Son of Martha Story
Petra encourages Jim to date her friend Susheela and they fall in love. What will happen?

A Story in the Smart Girls Universe
One spring day in the park, Dan meets eighteen year old Nina. He’s a middle-aged engineer, she’s graduating high school and needs tutoring. He resists, but she’s friendly, pretty, and… special.

A soldier is fatally wounded in Afghanistan at the same time as a young boy is badly injured in a car crash which kills the rest of his family. The soldier desperately fights for life while the young boy wants to give up. they both get their wish.