Ethan and Daniel are freshmen at college and very good friends. They connect with Jasmine, a black girl. Both boys have feelings for her beyond friendship. The three of them try to find a way to keep everyone happy and end up together in bed, where Ethan and Daniel get closer to each other than expected.
Billy's dull, but safe life is uprooted when he and his Mom suddenly move from Texas to rural Iowa to live with his handicapped Granddad. He has always been an introvert, and now he meets his neighbor on the next farm who is vibrant and full of energy. Honey is Billy's age and together they discover the the feelings of friendship, love and sexual exploration, as she draws him out of his shyness.
When his wife announces she's leaving him for her art professor, John wonders how he'll cope as a single parent running a growing business. His young sister in law joins him as a nanny for his daughter. Could she become even more important than that?
April Fools Contest 2025
Terry Weaver and Lupe Calderón are both outcasts at their swanky prep school. When they are set up by the A-list students in an elaborate April fool's prank, they must cooperate to avoid a nasty fallout, and in the process, they get a true measure of each other. With the help of a rural police chief and her farmer parents, the two young people thwart their classmates' schemes and come out of the predicament smelling like… daffodils? Winner, 2025 April Fools Story Contest.
The hero of this story went to Vietnam to serve his country. He left some DNA there. Some 40 years later a young girl, a Vietnamese/American from California arrives in Boston to attend Harvard. The two are soon connected...