Driving home from a funeral, Hal stops to get gas, sees his muffler needs attention, decides to give blood while waiting for the repairs, and meets a shy, lovely girl perhaps half his age who is making her first blood donation.
Fifteen-year-old Josh seems to have everything a teenage boy could want: loving parents, a bright future, and best of all, a beautiful social appliance named Tiffany who loves him...So why would he ever want to go on a date with a real girl?
This Story is Part of Jake's Universe
After 22 years of marriage, things go astray for Noah. A man without vision to see ahead, but highly competent at his work. Cultural pressures in a land he does not know create a current that pulls him along to a place he knows not. But he ends up with a wife and two mistresses! While this story is not specifically attached to the Jake’s Choices Universe, assumes knowledge of life in the Philippines, which I have covered in the Threads Joyfully and with Ganda stories in the Universe.
Alyssa has the best assistant - and friend - she could have ever hoped for. Sarah's help is especially welcome now that Alyssa is very pregnant as a surrogate for her sister, but she is torn by a secret lust for the younger woman. Little does she know what her irritation at the difficulty of shaving around her pregnant bump will bring.
A Glass Balls Story The parallel adventures of Olivia Wright, art historian and sensuous woman, and Dom, the medieval youth, continue. Livy rediscovers a secret of Italian art and deflowers a young boy, while Dom experiments with gay love before finding two old friends.