A Swarm Cycle Story
Being a volunteer in a town that hates the Confederacy is not a good thing. Being in a Mall when things boil over is much more dangerous.
Britney McMasters' MORFS universe
Some gifts are more of a responsibility than a privilege. MORFS just is and those who are empowered find that everything has a price tag, usually not measured in dollars.
A colonization fleet headed for Spica IV meets with disaster. Only a few humans survive the catastrophe. One of the survivors is a Space Marine who takes charge of finding any other living people and begins to repopulate the human part of the fleet. They meet hostile humans and hostile aliens. This is how they keep going as permanent residents of space.
A mysterious woman saves a student from a mugging and kills the attacker in the process. The only clue is some equations she was writing on a tabletop. World-changing events aren't always obvious, and this is one of them.
As a desperate measure to save humanity from extinction, Dr. Olson releases a virus into the population that makes girls go into heat -- craving a great deal of sex during their rare fertile periods. They will go to any lengths to get what they need. Men and boys can smell their condition and are nearly as single-minded in giving them what they want so much.
Dr. Monroe wants unresponsive patients to be able to transmit their thoughts, but instead they transmit their pleasure. Next, when a therapist transmits sexual pleasure, it's a miracle cure for depression. And then he retires and collects every form of feminine company that suits his fancy, including a harem and a steady stream of women dying to be impregnated. All the females experience his every pleasure as their own.
Sophie's big brother helps her with her high school science project. The machine screws up and they switch bodies. This is how they cope with exploring how screwed up thing really can get.