Slow Stories

A Variation On A Theme Story
What if you had a second chance at life? Steve finds himself fourteen again, with a chance to do things differently. He quickly finds this new world isn't quite the same as the first time around. Can he make the most of this opportunity, and what does that even mean? Family, friends, love, growth, change, loss, heartache, sadness, recovery, joy, failure, success, and more mix and mingle in a highly character-driven story that's part do-over, part coming-of-age.

A Story in the Io's World Universe
This is a simple tale that involves changes to every aspect of human society on the planet. Wait... it's a story of the assassination of a President -- or it's a story of the 1%ers fighting for their lives --no, it's about a kidnapping by -- Well, it IS about the only non-human intelligence on the planet, who has decided she doesn't want to be the only thing alive in a few hundred years, and the steps she takes to make sure it doesn't happen that way.

Two years ago, Noelle kissed Mike and told him she loved him. She was only sixteen, so Mike turned her down as gently as he could. Now, almost two years later, she's back. Could she still feel the same way? (This is a sequel to Second Billing.)

A Swarm Cycle Story
On the day that the President announced that aliens had approached humanity about fighting another alien race, Mark Parker was a eighth grade student worried more about surviving the jungle that was his school than going to war. Little could he realize just how much his life and the lives of his friends would change as he tried to protect those close to him from what was coming. / (Reviews)

He comes home unexpectedly to find his mother learning belly dancing.

A Tara Story
Part of the Keltria universe
It was pitch black and cold, and an odd smell tickled his nostrils. He had been on his way to a transporter dais that was in Brisbane, Queensland, Earth. He had felt the transition start and then he felt searing pain, freezing cold and blackness. 'What the bloody hell did you do to me, Lee?' he thought. Instinctively, he knew that this wasn't where he was supposed to be. Was he blind or was it really just as black as it seemed? Where the bloody hell was he? Why was he here?

Josh Whitney dies one day on a mountainside road in California. He wakes up later trying to survive in 40,000 BC. Will he survive? Will he find love and happiness? Can he find his ass with both hands and a map? P.S. - The 'rape' is offscreen (This is a rewrite)