The superhero known as Reflector can absorb and redirect any attack, but everyone has a weakness. For heroes with a secret identity, that weakness may be the ones they love.
A story in the Connor Family Universe
The Connor kids, Jacob and Bridget, are all grown up. See them enter a brave new world. The Marriage Extension Act (MEA) has made polyamorous marriages legal and the US Supreme Court has declared public sex a Right of Expression under the First Amendment. This is a world where life extending anagathics ensure that anyone who can afford the two million dollar price tag can live to a healthy century and more. Still growing up a Connor means there be plenty family play no matter the generation.
A young construction worker suffers serious injuries when the scaffold he's on crashes to the ground with two more men on it. One man is killed, another has a broken neck, and Stoney has multiple injuries. He starts out with one nurse, then things turn around for him and he adds two more nurses. He meets some friendly teenagers in the trailer park. Those girls are eager to feed him, and even help him regain his pride.
A story in the Gabatrix Series Universe
Set in 2350, the Terrorists of Batrice continues not long after the Silver Rain. A brother of a fallen man resides in the great Fort Batrice. Recovering from such a loss, it is quickly shattered as an explosion occurs on the great space station. Please read the disclaimers before reading the story. The story contains: Swearing, Space, Science Fiction, Future, Sex, Love, War, Violence, Blood, Interspecies, Male Human, Female Aliens, Scalie, Human/Alien Sex, M/FF
It was the 'Miss' that swung it, of course. If he'd asked, 'How much, Ma'am' or simply, 'How much', then I might have just walked away, but it was a while since I'd been called Miss and I liked it. A lot.
Gerald, a successful lawyer, was about to start a new assignment. Knowing he would soon be working for weeks on end he decided to take a hike in the forest and was lucky to find tracks of a huge grizzly bear. During the search he bumped into a woman and they had to face the bear together but managed to escape into her cabin. Gerald spent the night with the beautiful woman but she told him the next day to forget her telling him never to look for her again He left but he was resolved to find her
In the 22nd century, the solar system has been explored and colonized. The nations of Earth are trapped in a deadly game of colony and empire - a game overset when an FTL experiment on the Saturnian moon of Janus rips a portal between our solar system...and somewhere else. What lays on the far side of the portal shall change the future of human history. But will it spell the end for us all? Or the beginning of a new golden age? Only time will tell.