This is a teaser to my WW2 novella "Colette", which requires premier membership. The complete novella is also on Bookapy. Note the trigger warnings - but most triggers are off-screen.
A Rachael of Emarukistan Story (5) This is a companion story to the four stories in the Rachael of Emarukistan series, which are set around the ninth century CE. Meghr is introduced in Rachael and the Warlord (part four of the series) when she is around nineteen years old. This stand-alone short story provides Meghr's back-story, and what becomes of her after she leaves Rachael's caravanserai, Wadi Halaf. This story can be read without previously reading any of the Rachael of Emarukistan series.
Growing Pains Flash Stories Part of the Growing Pains universe
In New Pleasures, Rhea writes some homework to infuriate her teacher. It is NOT light reading and should only be read by people reading New Pleasures.
Detectives Nancy and Georgiana are on vacation. Daddy's working in New Orleans and George has relatives nearby. They find the people are very friendly. Daddy finishes business quickly and the girls receive presents. Can the girls find Happiness or will circumstances stop them? Can they solve the mystery or will they end up victims?
To keep his mother, Tala, and himself going, fourteen-year-old Filipino-American boy Angelo takes up with American sailors near the 1973 Subic Bay, Philippines, naval complex when his B-girl mother is too ill to turn tricks. They have had a hardscrabble existence in the Olongapo City slums since Angelo's sailor father shipped out thirteen years earlier. Angelo is ready to service sailors, but being handed around proves to be a rough, loveless life.
The Vampire Lestat has come out of hiding to fill us in on the missing pieces of Anne Rice's novel, The Vampire Lestat. Lestat's intimate relationship with his immortal mother, Gabrielle and all the particulars of having an Undead Lover. Enter if you dare!