Reluctant Stories

A story set in the Pinwheel Universe
When a council meeting on the Pinwheel is interrupted by an assassination attempt, Security Chief Moralez is given seventy-two hours to unmask the culprit, all while under the watchful eye of two mysterious intelligence operatives with an unknown agenda. The suspects range from hostile aliens to shady special forces operatives, even elements of his own government are not above suspicion. Only by piecing together the clues can he uncover who carried out the attack, and why. / (Reviews)

A Dusty Story
Part of the Keltria universe
Dusty Carmichael works for UNSEC as an MP and a Detective with her partner and husband, James. In January of 2098, they were reassigned from their jobs on Luna to a special task force. There is also a secret to their success. They are not ordinary people anymore. This story covers their adventures investigating a crime syndicate that spanned more than one solar system. As per usual, Dusty’s curiosity got her and James into trouble. Her dad often joked that ‘Trouble’ was her middle name.

A hardworking young farmer from a hardscrabble post-apocalyptic town, finds his dreams shattered by a visiting Witchhunter with mysterious abilities and his faithless wife. Both of whom are determined to cuckold and humiliate him in every way, until he finds a chance for revenge and escape. An odd sort of story with quite a few codes: mostly used incidentally. The designated genre of Western is arbitrary, and could also have been Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Drama/Action or even Suspense

A war-weary and wounded scout finds an unlikely partner in a time of mutual distress. Together they could just possibly find a way to stop the long pointless war and save thousands of lives but in doing so neither will be likely ever to see their home alive again - and that's if they can even trust each other long enough to survive the trip. An oddball Romantic-Fantasy story with very little sex.

Billie Jean is not my lover. She's just a girl who claims that I...

Meenal has been married for less than 48 hours. Her new husband, is a good man, but he's also boring, pompous, and utterly oblivious. Trapped with him in a train compartment bound for Indore, she finds herself the object of intense fascination for four charismatic college students. What begins as a harmless game of staring and teasing, quickly escalates into a dangerous battle of wills. As the miles go by and her husband's snores fill the air, Meenal must confront the truth about herself.

Gabriela Rodriguez is a terrorist facing decades in supermax after blowing up a CEO's mansion. Akira Drake is an arsonist. She's a woman with a cause; he's just plain crazy. She thinks too much; he doesn't think at all. They shouldn't want each other. They definitely shouldn't need each other. But in a place where everyone's already damned, what's one more bad decision?

Two 18 year old soccer captains, Jack and Matt, challenge each other to a soccer shootout with a lot more on the line than either straight guy was previously prepared to wager!

Bob moved to South Dakota to get away from a painful situation. Then he fell in love with a slip of a girl who he knew he couldn't have, and found himself in pain again. You know that saying: No pain, no gain? It is a phrase that can be very true.

A predicament in a university swimming pool where Zoey lost her clothes and now have to find a way to get back her modesty