Elderly widow takes in much younger construction foreman away from home. His wife asks her to be her surrogate to keep him from having his needs met by a potential rival. Does 75 year old Wendy agree? Read on.
He's a picker on his first solo run - searching the backroads, basements, and barns of America for some rusty gold. When he pulls over to check Denise's house for a couple of vintage pieces, he discovers that she's certainly got something for him.
Ken Stoker visits a massage parlour and encounters an unsual masseuse. Amanda is a Naga, a mythical demon with the lower body of a snake, and Ken is about to discover just how talented she is at using her coils for a full body-to-body massage.
A young man is disowned by his father and has to make his own way in life. He has a life he never expected to have. He befriends a homeless girl, finds love and success.
Ellen, traveling alone from the west coast by air, meets a handsome stranger who initiates her into an exclusive club flying high over the Great Western Plains.
A The Chosen Ones Story Charles and Diana Richards sense trouble looming on their horizon as they return from their Las Vegas wedding and honeymoon. But neither of them were prepared for the pain that arises because of Diana's troubled past. They struggle to get through it with the help of her three girlfriends, who also get their chances at true love because of this tragedy and sheer happenstance. Just when things start to look up, the past returns to haunt them again...
Jeff Huston somehow gets flipped back to 1877 in southern New Mexico Territory. He finds that his training as a Marine sniper in Iraq does him a world of good as he lives his new life in the midst of the Indian Wars. His old hobby of Cowboy Shooting is just icing on the cake. The only dialect is in some of the dialogue. This story is in answer to requests for another time-travel Western.
A brother and sister, in late blossom, get to spend a week alone down in Florida. There's some young stuff as a side story, but not that young, and as always handled in a very Losgudian manner. The endnote is worth reading.