A Swarm Cycle Story
How do you punish someone when they've done something that could have got them executed, but you really don't want to do that? When a concubines life is pretty much all about sex deciding on a suitable punishment can be really difficult. No/minimal sex.
A quirky science fiction story with no high drama but a strong theme that you can probably guess from the title. The title is borrowed from an unfinished work by Phillip K. Dick though it borrows nothing else from it. Our narrator is an urban preservationist a few hundred years in the future who lives in a nearly empty New York City but one day gets a new neighbor.
A story about Human-Alien first contact written from alien POV with an eyewitness describing to to another alien. Originally written for the HFY community on Reddit, so contains some of the Tropes of the genre and that Humans are just better than Aliens in most things.
A story in the Catalum Universe
A Catalum fleet is sent to study temporal effects in the region. The locals do not take kindly to being trespassed upon. They then learn they're the small fish in a very big pond.
Brian Abell is a forgotten man living in a rusted trailer on the edge of nowhere. He was obese, unloved, and invisible to a world that never gave him a chance. Bullied since childhood, abandoned by his mother, and rejected by women and society alike, Brian spends his days scavenging storage units and venting online. But when he discovers an ancient amulet containing Sila, a powerful and seductive jinn who has waited centuries to be freed, everything changes. She offers him three wishes.
Bill takes his daughter and her friend to Grovers Mill for the UFO watch that takes place there, He meets up with Clea and her son and his friend. what happens is out of this world
A Swarm Cycle Story
You get back from a long deployment and all you want to do is rest, but while the cat has been away one of the mice has been playing up.