Romance Stories

The yoshi-engumi system allows merchant wealth to buy samurai status—through daughters. Mio is adopted, transformed, married off, and forbidden from ever seeing her birth parents again. One mistake exposing her origins destroys everything. So she performs perfection while secretly wielding the skills that make her valuable: negotiation, strategy, steel. When her new mother-in-law attacks and bandits strike, Mio proves merchant daughters make the most dangerous samurai wives.

Whilst on a business trip to the big city, a guy decides to take a look at the neighbourhood that he grew up in, just for old times sake.

Ace is broken. Two disastrous relationships, and he buries himself in online gaming. He meets Cherry online, the one person who may have more issues than he does. Through their gaming they find healing and friendship, which extends beyond the Internet and into the real world. However, real life has its own issues, as they find out. A story of friendship, healing, romance, and relationships. The Gamer Goddess meets her match. Gamer Goddess is a 2013 Clitorides Nominee.

A Swarm Cycle Story
Despite the rabidly pacifistic outlook of the Confederacy, the war it wanted humans to engage in on their behalf against the Sa'arm was nothing but brutally violent. What if humanity could employ some of its history to implement other more elegant tactics that could end this existential threat, instead of just doing what the AI's thought was best? A story for vets, ham radio ops, history buffs, engineers and art and culture lovers.

Max Wagner has reached rock bottom when fate offers him a second chance. A famous man and a pretty widow give him reason to reclaim his life. Disaster strikes, and Max rises to the challenge.

A Story in the Greenies/A Perfect World Universe
A sequel to Greenies, in Al Steiner’s Greenies/Perfect World Universe, Martian Justice tells the story of the second Martian invasion. WestHem wants Mars back and doesn’t care if any Martians are in the way.