After being nothing more than an experiment for ten years Adam was thrown away. Life helped him find a place and finally a away to strike back. Of course when he stole Jen she only made things better and brought others to join them.
Mark had worked a long time to forget his family, his old life and women in general. On his first job all that would change, forever! Not only was he faced with a situation he had no control over but now he was forced to have a woman with him he didn't want, yet!
Anne looks like any other girl in school, but she has something nobody else has. It's actually three somethings and they have perhaps the foulest mouths. These three things are also her legacy or curse, depending on how one looks at it.
A Swarm Cycle Story
The inspiration for this short story was an 80's Country song by Dan Seals and a story by Thinking Horndog, the creator of The Swarm Cycle. If you have not read his story, 'Buying Wholesale', go ahead and do that and you will see where this story fits. It's just a vignette inside a larger canvas. This was never intended as a stand-alone story.
Ken is totally blind, but something very strange happens when he reaches puberty: He starts seeing sex organs. Red is for male, green for female. Then he finds that the new girl Lisa at the blind school has the same kind of vision. They are drawn to each other, and drawn to sexual exploration as they are exposed before each other. They see things both wonderful and not so wonderful that are hidden from the sighted.
Tamara is coming of age and learning about a four-letter word. Single Ship pilots are a strange breed; not really anti-social but unsocial. They can get by just fine for months and even years on end with only voices on their radios for company. Every now and then, though, they are faced with things outside their experience.