Reluctant Stories

A Professor of Economics, who had a vibrant career at a university abroad, forced to be back in India due to a family issue. Her life takes a turn when she pokes the son of a politician.

A story in the Immortals Universe
A terrific Canadian novelist, Lynsay Sands created the Immortal series. Not vampires, exactly. I love her books! Her scientific immortals require blood to fuel "nanos", medically engineered healing nanobots created in Atlantis ages past. Here, I've borrowed her "not vampire" theme, creating a short story of an encounter in the Victorian era.

My wife broke my heart when she suddenly left me. Six months later she worms her way back into my life, injured and pregnant. She won't do that again or will she? Will I fall for it twice?

Dark Tales — Amazing People
What happens when the nephew of a modern day relic hunter encounters the Goddess Hera? One of my favorite Sydney shows, you know the ones with a beautiful woman named Sydney (Alias, Relic Hunter) postulated, but never carried through on the idea that an ancient goddess might have survived through to this modern age, and if you could find her then you might be able to control her. I have now carried through on this idea for them - including revealing why they lived such hedonistic life styles.

Mabel thought she knew what she wanted, it just all went wrong

I write about meeting my Master in public for the first time

After the month from hell, a stranger breaks into Zeela's home and attacks her, promising to fulfill her darkest fantasies.

A teenage girl whose mother is killed in an auto accident is forced to move in with a distant cousin of her mother's and his two sons.