Reluctant Stories

A classic story, extrapolated to modern times.

When Hetty headed out west to join her husband, she could imagine many dangers. But somehow she'd never believed bandits might waylay her stagecoach. When they do, she's forced to make some impossible decisions. And the choices she makes will change her life forever.

The dark stone changes those that possess it. Just after his eighteenth birthday, Sam finds a strange rock half-buried near some old abandoned train tracks. They were a normal suburban family. When Sam brings the stone home with him, things slowly unravel. His mother finds herself in situations she never imagined. His sister tries to resist her new impulses. Even Sam's married neighbor falls under the stone's spell.

A Story from The Case Files of Dr. Randall Herringwick
The doctor encounters a sultry hypnotist who feels an overwhelming need to atone for her sins.

The story follows James Smith, a man who dies and finds himself in a surreal afterlife courtroom, where his life is judged as "zero sum"—neither good nor evil, just utterly average. Dissatisfied with being consigned to eternal mediocrity, he manipulates the cosmic bureaucracy into granting him a second chance in a new world, where he is reincarnated as a child with his memories intact and perks... - edited by my lovely Steven.

A Story in the Kylie X. Interracial Stories Universe
A loving husband tries to persuade his beautiful black wife into cheating on him with white men.

Tornadoes and Storms do a lot of damage each year. They destroy homes and property and sometimes even take lives. This is about the Storm that blew away my marriage

Katy is snowbound with the "bad-boy"boyfriend from her first year in high school. After twenty years the memories are a challenge to her wedding vows.

Accomplished English Knight is forced to kill the Earl he serves when the Earl betrays the King to whom they both swore their oaths of allegiance. This is complicated by the fact that the Earl is a close friend of the Knight. This leaves the Knight unsettled, unable to return to the land of his birth, where he would have to face the Earl's wife. Join him as he sets out across Europe searching for an elusive inner peace, as well as a cause to pledge himself to, and maybe even love along the way.