Slow Stories

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

I called out "Hello?" and walked slowly forward. I felt like I was intruding. But I was dumbstruck by the vivid green walls of foliage that hemmed in the garden making it the most private feeling space in the whole of London. "Can I help you?" a girls voice behind me made me jump. I turned around. She was holding a garden fork firmly with both hands, the tines pointing nonchalantly towards me like she could strike out effortlessly if she needed to.

In a small apartment at the edge of the city, life runs on quiet rituals. Kaori Mizushima packs lunches, shelves mystery novels at the neighborhood bookstore, and measures the year by the photo on the shelf—her late husband Yuto, work-rough hands, a baby Ren in his arms. Ren Mizushima is nineteen now, tall, careful, still home because rent is expensive and because this place still feels like belonging. He notices his mother more than a son should. He pretends he doesn’t...

A crumbled spot in the trail put him here. The blazing summer sun keeps him company.

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.

15 years on from the end of 'Brat Pack'. Rob is released from his jail sentence for tax evasion to find all his children now in their teens. Devon is caught by the school Head in a compromising position with one of his students. He's innocent, but it takes the efforts of the family working together to prove it. It's been years since Rob got to fuck any of the women: he has a lot of ground to make up.

A Swarm Cycle Story
In this, part 10 of the Outpost Series, Frances continues her journey of self-discovery. Along the way she manages to help other people and learn to live a fuller life.

A Story in the Princess Fantasies Universe
It's kind of like Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, but there's no poison apple... and there's only one, not seven... and he isn't a dwarf...

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.