This story can stand alone but it touches on other stories with the primary one being "Intertwined." It is about an Army retiree entering civilian life. There is only a little sex in this story which is slow to develop and is not overly descriptive.
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.
Eddie is now a high school freshman. Adapting to a larger school, he is still scoping out the bevy of new girls. Although he is getting known as a good boy to know, he meets and befriends a sophmore girl, Holly. She invites him to dinner, where he meets her mother. The mother confides in Eddie that suspecting he has 'experience' she encourages him to teach her daughter about sex.
A beautiful blonde wife, who has shown no real interest in sex before, is used and abused by four men in a bowling alley while her husband watches. She learns to like it and so does he.
Chuck is a retired old biker. Tough, cantankerous, he lusts after young girls. Maryam is a rebellious teenager who wants to escape from her fundamentalist father. Can their mutual desires and needs overcome the 50 year age gap?
After a terrible car crash, pretty eighteen-year-old Sherry is a helpless quadruple amputee. Can she ever be happy again? With help from an Elf and a bit of Christmas magic, who knows? - - - Includes a few paragraphs of mild pee/scat.