Michelle goes undercover to investigate thefts at a pharmaceutical company and encounters an eccentric scientist who has developed a drug that can cure her of being alive.
A Story in the 34th Amendment Universe
In a dystopian, misogynistic world that legalized contractual slavery, society has embraced this concept, and the evaluation as a potential slave through so-called "gradings" has become a contest and a rite of passage for young women. Pretty Lucy finds this practice abhorrent, but she tries so hard to live up to the expectations of her rich and worldly fiance. But the heart, as we know, is often a shoddy advisor, and bad things tend to happen to the people who least deserve it...
A story in the Tales of Station Gorge Universe.
The Bank's been robbed. Guns have been fired. The Driver speeds off to make his get-away. Learn all their names and more of the facts. What will happen to the loot? Who is the Fifth Man? When will the rain stop?
A Duel to the death between an old homeless lady and a serial killer in the swampy wilderness of Flordia. Sometimes it is hard to tell the prey from the hunter.
Two girls endure middle school and high school. Their peers give them grief over their looks: they are two red heads in an ocean of black hair. One has no mother, the other's mother is a punitive monster. Sometimes, your hopes for the future depend on that one friend who can understand you and be your rock in the face of cruelty, even violence. This is a short story, a quick read.
Fourteen-year-old Terrence Lionel, son of a Jamaica sugarcane plantation owner and slave trader in the late 1770s, is hot for men and gives himself to a big buck slave, is seen doing so by pirates, and then is captured and used by them as well. Terry doesn't mind.