Slow Stories

A Swarm Cycle Story
Episode 9 in the Outpost Series. Frances continues to tell the story of Heinlein Station. In this story she doesn't tell her own story so much as take a break from reliving the past. In doing that she reaches a turning point.

For him it was like finding a forgotten masterpiece hidden away in an antique store. For her it was like brushing away the years of dust that blocked out the light and seeing a world that she had never known.

A dark tale of what one husband desperately wanted to do to his cheating wife.

He knew she was going to cheat. He had to figure out how to stop it.

My trip taking my first sailboat to another port takes a most interesting turn when a large storm alters my plans for me. Luckily, I wasn't the only one whose plans were changed.

A coming of age story about two sets of siblings who grow up together miles from anywhere, and who discover all the good things in life together. Two plus two can equal six or eight under the right circumstances.

A girl gets employed for an office job. But the corporate culture there is quite unusual. (More imagination teasing than actual sex scenes.)

Just another cheating story.

Back on familiar ground. A chance meeting, a lift home, coffee, then-well, you can probably guess. A little sex. British English used throughout.