He'd planned a fun night with his wife watching a new porn tape and fooling around, but his wife had been called away. With his wife gone on her 'mercy' mission and his daughter out he watches the tape alone and is stunned by who the star character is!
Two siblings, Bob and Beth Argo, develop an unusual sense so that they can sometimes read the emotions of people under great stress. Early on, this sense helps them to fight crimes and gets them pegged as the Killer Bs. This is the story of their advance through high school and their later life fighting crime and sometimes terrorists for Homeland Security. 10 chapters.
A woman and her family are forced by their desires to come to grips with turbulent emotions. What happens to them when they confront these emotions together reveals their ability to be honest with themselves and to be unafraid of their own inner feeling
A young boy and his family make a sudden move to another town and he feels betrayed by his parents. He meets the woman next door as she's fighting wasps while mowing. He tries to help her, but ends up getting stung himself, in a bad place. She tends to his wounds, then when his mom comes home she tends to him even better.
An originally unwanted meeting between an uncle and a niece. He only remembers her as a real pain in the ass. Circumstances bring them together once again and he is totally caught up in this mature young girl/woman.