A companion story to Ovi-Surrogate, Shelly finds she is not alone in her service to the strange, alien forest dwellers. She witnesses another young woman providing for their reproductive needs.
Bram Russell, reviewer of massage parlours, is used to getting exactly what he wants from working girls...at a discount. He arrives at Arabella's thinking it to be yet another sub-standard Northern massage parlour. However, Arabella's has a secret. Amanda, the dominatrix working in the basement, is a naga, and she doesn't take kindly to being pushed around...
A group of British lads are shown a hidden beach during a vacation to an island nudist colony. The naked girls they find seem absolutely gorgeous, but they harbour a dark secret...
Bishop Robert and his Curate wife Pauline are estranged, work in different cities. They've been told by their beautiful daughter-in-law Adrienne that their only son has died suddenly age 45, killed by cancer that he hid from his parents. Robert wants to officiate at the funeral but Adrienne has that in hand. Both are invited to the Pre Wake. Unlike a Wake, this evening dress party, with music and dancing followed by a formal dinner, is held before the funeral rather than after.
A 'Transdimensional Portals' Book (9) A story in my 'Transdimensional Portals' universe. It also appeared as a chapter in 'Green Doom'. Any resemblence to H. P. Lovecraft's Elder Gods stories is purely intentional.