Reluctant Stories

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...

What happens when the good boy meets up with the wrong girl and finds things outside his experience, things that shouldn't be there, Things that just aren't right. That turn out right. / (Reviews)

A story set in the Pinwheel Universe
When a survey vessel stumbles upon an undiscovered Earth-like planet, the UNN scrambles to lay claim to it. Unfortunately, a Betelgeusian hive fleet also has its eyes on the rare prize. / (Reviews)

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

A Making of a Gigolo Story
Felicity married an older man - a MUCH older man. She loved him, but her 10 year High School reunion was coming up, and he wouldn't go with her. He suggested she hire a younger man to take her, and impress her friends. Her friends were impressed, but not as much as Felicity.

Unseen eyes have been on me for weeks—cold, calculating, belonging to a man who's twisted my every move into his obsession. He's mapped me like prey: the way I jog these paths, sweat glistening on my skin; the library corner where I hunch over notes, oblivious; the solo treks home where my guard slips.

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?