As winter is setting in in northern Virginia, fourteen-year-old runaway Kenny is lured away from under a highway underpass by a money-for-sex offer into the truck of a gardening center crew leader who is missing the servicing of his fourteen-year-old stepson. Short men on his crew, the man gives Kenny a job handling a leaf-blower and introduces him to an interested client. Is this the answer to Kenny’s need to stay out of the winter cold?
A Story in the The Anomaly Universe
Surely this is exactly what Beatrice was always meant to be. She had in Paul a loving faithful husband. She had as many other lovers as she might desire. And most of all she was playing a crucial role in the Space Ship Intrepid's quest for the Anomaly. How could it ever be better for her? But Beatrice's moment of glory and the success of the Intrepid's mission is under threat from shadowy and mysterious entities whose very existence has not even been suspected.
A female co-worker asks a shy guy to help keep her from being ragged on at a family function -- but it turns out that there's a little more to it... / (Reviews)