It was just a normal family camping trip until the twins were suddenly surrounded by a brilliant, white light, and they lost consciousness. When they woke up, somehow, they had been switched into each other's bodies. Craig's mind was now in his sister's body, and hers was in his. They were stuck with having to pretend to be each other. The alternative was endless years of being confined in some government lab, or an institution for the insane. But fooling the world wasn't going to be easy.
Johnny Pulaski was a late bloomer. He was short and scrawny until the summer after ninth grade. He was small enough that even his older sister called him runt. Then puberty struck, he hit a growth spurt and he discovered the real reason that people – especially girls – liked him. Johnny's young life had all the usual ups and downs, he was just a normal teenage boy after all … or was he?
Perky, beautiful Brook is united with her father for the first time at fourteen when her mother marries the man she never knew before. The curious teen overhears more than she bargained for while spying on her parents having sex in their hot tub. And after seeing her pretty best friend, Cindy, is treated by her own father, Brook grows more determined than ever to get as much love as everyone else around her.
Stories in the Frank's Post-Apoc World Universe
This is, obviously, Book 10 of the series. It has new narrators and travels in new directions as the people of Protection and Preservation search the world for more survivors. Distances can be long between stops and new possibilities await the exploration team. Time continues to flow from the Day, now almost forty years ago.
A Rivers Region Story
They say the Chinese have a curse - May you live in interesting times. A 15 year old boy has a major change of lifestyle forced on him. We follow along while he adjusts to the changes. However, he lives in interesting times and he must deal with them as well as rising to the challengers presented to him. Through all this his true nature shows and he changes the lives of many others in the city of Rivers, and elsewhere. Set in Australia. / (Reviews)
Having had an accident at birth that leaves him with mental and physical challenges, a young man copes with a world where some people are kind but more people try to take advantage of him. / (Reviews)
A Story in the Life in the Suburbs Universe
16 y/o Hal Smith is a quiet, unassuming Australian teen boy with a bad knee and no dreams. Taught to help people, he does; without thinking before acting. In Year Ten in a new city and school, it's a year of living in interesting times as he's often in the wrong place at the wrong time doing the right thing. He'd once dreamt of being a world athlete and had the skills to make them true, but lost them helping a stranger; and delivered a Star Performance greater than most athletes can ever do.
Jan and Bobby get parts in the school play that involve a love scene. How do you prepare for that? What do you do to ... practice the part? Now far should you go to suggest ... realism? Practice makes perfect, they say, so come along for the ride of ... their ... lifetime.
This story is the companion piece to "Getting Into The Scene" / (Reviews)