A mother and daughter are taken captive by a green tenticaled alien being from their home in western Pensyvania in 1752. The alien is a prince running from his father while awaiting a revolution to begin on his home planet.
A short story. Mattias runs a tavern in the rural country. One day a scrawny girl with fiery eyes and small stubs of wings growing out her back barges in. Dragons are long thought to be extinct in this world. Mattias is placed into a twisted life with this fire breathing girl in his care, their relationship growing through their differences.
Sam Spade's AI, Juicy Lucy, hailed with a distress call from a sleek unidentified space cruiser saying their turbo thrusters were inoperative. He was all gung ho to go help, but Juicy had a sneaky suspicion something was fishy, he should go "locked and loaded.” Well… four foxgirls later, Juicy was right!
One of the London Underground stories A self indulgent short that turned into a long winded version of my perfect world. The whole other world that no one I know can really get into but me. Transformation, self discovery, and finding the way home.
The acrid smell of fried electronics fills the air. Damn government contractors! Greedy bastards cut every corner, just to save a credit. My ears drop as I survey the damage. The bracket holding the emergency control panel snapped. It slammed into the main power conduit which, of course, wasn't properly shielded. A 10-credit bracket. Damn them! This is bad. Really bad.
A married woman experiencing severe headaches which tablets won't shift seeks alternative therapy in the form of hypnosis and then begins having dreams of making love to a young female; which is extremely unusual for her because women never normally entered her head sexually; unaware of the young female who hypnotised her is trying to plant the seeds of her twisted fantasy in the married woman's mind.