Slow Stories

A bitter old man gets another chance at life. Will he live better this time or will he make the same mistakes? The story follows Paul Sheppard through his last year of high school in the late 1950s and through college. Are our lives fated or can we change? / (Reviews)

My husband and I each had a free pass. You know that one special person that we could have sex with and not destroy our relationship. True, it had been during a night of drinking, back before we were married when we agreed to it. But I really thought he'd be okay with it.

A story set in the Pinwheel Universe
When Miller meets a Polar Borealan named Kofe, she takes an immediate liking to him. After the surly engineer rejects her advances, the giant alien makes it her mission to change his mind, using every dirty trick at her disposal.

Can Harvey survive and thrive beyond the frontier? Will he be alone? Will the children survive? Was that the roar of a bear or the angry whistle of a passing arrow? 🤠 🏹 (total: 19 chapters) / (Reviews)

A story set in the Pinwheel Universe
Tepin, a shy Valbaran artist, travels to the Pinwheel in search of inspiration. During his exploration of the space station, he encounters a Krell, a giant alien with an uncanny resemblance to the ancient deities of his people's past. Enamored, he attempts to make friends with the creature, not realizing that his assumptions about the alien's gender are incorrect...

Michael Stewart does a good turn for a homeless family on Christmas Eve. As he supports the family he is drawn to the abused, pretty mother, and into the family's problems. Life would not be the same after this, he thought. Little did he know how different it would be.

There are many ways to drop out of society and there are many reasons, as well. Josh is just, well, happy to be by himself. That is, until somebody shows up on his houseboat one day. / (Reviews)

Jess Tanner has always tried to do the right thing. She doesn't have a perfect life, or a perfect marriage. But she's working hard to fix things with Mike, feeling sure that the bond they share is built to last. Right up to the moment when it all falls apart. Then, driven by betrayal, rage, and alcohol, Jess finds herself doing crazy things, things she never thought she'd do. But where does that leave her imperfect marriage, and imperfect life? She'll just have to sort that out in the morning.

A Blues Story
Mark, a math geek, is assigned by his teacher to tutor little miss rich girl in Algebra. It's a formula for experimentation that adds up to something neither of them planned on. They find out one plus one might make three! Who says math is useless in everyday life? / (Reviews)