Slow Stories

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...

This is a modern fairy tale between two college virgins. She liked literature but was pushed into studying Computer Science by her dad. I was a computer maniac who didn't even know how to flirt. This story adapts a very slow build. / (Reviews)

A Chance Story
Grace and David Austin/Anderson are headed back to the States. Fred's daughter is going with them. Might be interesting... might not. The sail will be boring.

A Story in the Middlebury Chronicles Universe
J.A.M. Aluminum is a successful company with a unique, yet naughty, incentive program for its executives. But, the administrative support staff for these executives seem to have gotten together and linked all the clues that lead to their discovery of this incentive system referred to furtively in whispers as 'The Program,' involving sex on demand. But who would take serious any rumor that is passed along by someone who is 'just a secretary?'

It's raining, the fishing's screwed up from all the fresh water, so Buddy takes his boat to go help with rescue efforts from massive flooding. You can find a lot of things in a flooded town.

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)

Summer, 1990. Eric and his twin sister Abby are working at Summer Lake, a beloved but outdated lakefront resort in the North Woods. The guests are geriatric and the management is out of touch. Eric and Abby naturally gravitate toward the outcasts of the teenage staff, fellow victims of the in-crowd bullies, but they’re determined to have the best summer of their lives anyway.

A romance developes between two kite flyers, one a novice, the other not. A slow story that involves some of the results of a woman's bout with breast cancer.