Ma/Fa Stories

A young woman's parents are killed in an accident on the day she graduates from college. As she goes through their belongings later she finds that she didn't know her parents quite as well as she thought she did.

A Story in the Jake's Merle Haggard Invitational Universe
Would he ever be good enough to take her hand? He was a city boy with long hair but he loved her.

She finds a genie, but doesn't want to make a wish.

Joe has a kid come to work in his auto repair shop. The kid looks just like him. Tracing the kid's mother takes on various ramification, some with heartbreak and disappointments. Much of it involving the second generation. Things seem to work out for everyone.

George is happily divorced and even more happily involved in his prospering business, but his friends think it is long past time for him to get back into the dating game once again. Hilarity ensures. Gently revised to fix typos.

Ann Russet is a 14yo girl trying to understand her newfound sexuality. She's pretty sure she should have been born a guy, but can't deny her attraction for 'other' boys. Is it possible to be a gay boy trapped in a heterosexual girl's body? And if so, what the heck does that mean? With the help of her 6 brothers, 4 best friends, and football coach, Annie is determined to find out what makes her tick.

Young man resists cuckolding attempt by fiance. He moves west and builds a new life with two women he meets there. One is half Indian. Her grandfather instructs him on the old Indian ways of life modified for modern times. They live well but modestly.

Magic of the Wood
Home on their first summer break from college, Terra and her twin sister Ella are ready to reconnect with the family, relax, and have some fun after the stress of keeping up with their classes and a packed social schedule. A favorite spot trashed by beer bashes and tensions between Terra and her boyfriend just might make her realize that a lifetime of joy can be hiding in the most unassuming of places.

A Swarm Cycle Story
Ensign Steward is given a promotion. There just one catch - a cruise to the edge of known space with an insane AI.

An early middle aged man starts out on a relaxing overnight sail for the weekend intentionally alone on his sailboat. As he is motoring down channel, out of the harbor, he is passed by a fully loaded party boat. A young college girl on the party boat sticks her head up and sees him on his boat, moments later she jumps overboard and swims over towards him. He brings her aboard and thus starts an unexpected relationship between them which includes a rescue, an education (for her) and a romance.