Mature Gentleman seeks travel companion. Requires younger cultured woman as a travel companion for a trip to Europe and beyond. NSA. Applicants will be judged on personality and culture. All expenses paid and an end of trip bonus of $10,000 per month will be offered. Apply by Email giving a brief apercu of yourself. Only candidates judged suitable will be contacted.
Summer, 1990. Eric and his twin sister Abby are working at Summer Lake, a beloved but outdated lakefront resort in the North Woods. The guests are geriatric and the management is out of touch. Eric and Abby naturally gravitate toward the outcasts of the teenage staff, fellow victims of the in-crowd bullies, but they’re determined to have the best summer of their lives anyway.
The youngest labourer in the construction crew, Wayne, has organised a craic for his mates, Gaffer, Donkey and Bodge, a trip from rural West Ireland to the last day of the Cheltenham Festival. They are all doing a "Super Heinz", a way of betting on every combination of 7 races at a meeting, including trebles and accumulators. A great craic is on the cards, but does Wayne have something else in mind? A gentle, humorous road trip with added romance, nothing serious, just the craic.
A Story in the Naked In School Universe
Dana is an activist honors student with a STEM bent. Teri is an antisocial slash-ficcer starting to successfully publish original works. Mike is a paraplegic smart-ass with a gift for languages. Three teenagers are selected to go through the Naked In School Program at the same time—instead, they go through it together.
Part of 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
RichardGerald and I wrote this jointly for Bebop and Nora's "50 Ways to Leave your Lover" event. Since one of those options is a bus, we modeled our story on the classic Hollywood 'meet cute' film "It Happened One Night." Which means that we changed the characters, swapped the sexes, radically altered the plot, and wrote a whole new story. But we DID think about the film while we were trashing it. So as the pitchmen would say: It's exactly like the original except on a train and....
A story set in the Pinwheel Universe
Tepin, a shy Valbaran artist, travels to the Pinwheel in search of inspiration. During his exploration of the space station, he encounters a Krell, a giant alien with an uncanny resemblance to the ancient deities of his people's past. Enamored, he attempts to make friends with the creature, not realizing that his assumptions about the alien's gender are incorrect...
