A story in the Tomorrow is another Day Universe
My clan-by-choice and I are off to save the world from nuclear war, which was much, much closer than anyone realized during the Cuban Missile Crisis. My partners and I are bonded by honor, intellect, and sexual energy. Given much of the crisis was due to being fucked over by politicians, I see no reason for the heroes not to find pleasant fucking. There also is nuanced historical analysis.
Growing Pains Flash Stories Part of the Growing Pains universe
In New Pleasures, Rhea writes some homework to infuriate her teacher. It is NOT light reading and should only be read by people reading New Pleasures.
To keep his mother, Tala, and himself going, fourteen-year-old Filipino-American boy Angelo takes up with American sailors near the 1973 Subic Bay, Philippines, naval complex when his B-girl mother is too ill to turn tricks. They have had a hardscrabble existence in the Olongapo City slums since Angelo's sailor father shipped out thirteen years earlier. Angelo is ready to service sailors, but being handed around proves to be a rough, loveless life.
I'll never understand how a woman thinks. Maybe it's better that way; just pay the bill and say "Yes Dear" to whatever I'm told. Deep down inside I knew on this thing of ours they were right and my way of thinking was wrong. It all had to do with priorities. Maybe Eve had the experience to know different though. Was it 'Fair' to Kim and Megan was a question too? What about to Trish then. I knew these were some questions I could not answer myself.
A Swarm Cycle Story
Outpost series #1
An interesting foursome listens for Sa'arm communications at the deep space listening post Heinlein station. A short peek into the intelligence side of the Swarm Cycle.
Fourteen-year-old Italian Matteo finds himself orphaned in a remote Catholic medical and orphanage mission near mid-nineteenth-century Xi'an, China, and being used sexually by the Jesuit doctor in charge of the mission as well as the other priests. Having heard of the beautiful European boy, the Warlord in Xi'an arrives to sample his charms himself. He does so as a conqueror before learning just how charming the boy is.
During World War II, Josette is a French woman whose husband is a prisoner of war. The German army forces her to share her house with a young German soldier. The two of them are lost souls, caught up in the tragedy of war. Their relationship has consequences.