An Apartment Building Superintendents Adventures. This story is one of three stand alone stories that are each told from different point of view of a common event. The other two are "Aikira" and "Jason Cole"
The dark stone changes those that possess it. Just after his eighteenth birthday, Sam finds a strange rock half-buried near some old abandoned train tracks. They were a normal suburban family. When Sam brings the stone home with him, things slowly unravel. His mother finds herself in situations she never imagined. His sister tries to resist her new impulses. Even Sam's married neighbor falls under the stone's spell.
Deck and Tabby take a vacation, where things take on a decidedly paranormal twist! Declan Shepard, veteran of Crusader Team, discovers something magical about his own lineage. How will Tabby react? And what could a shadow from her own past have to do with their relationship?
Most of the world was not aware of the racial discrimination and genocide by light-skinned blacks against dark-skinned or ink-black Africans. This story tells of the dream of a young ink-black girl who had a dream, and her journey to make it come to life.
A Cuisine Club Story A young man discovers that the social food club to which his parents belong actually covers a very large, very sexy secret... and his world is changed forever.
Wyoming, 1878. When schoolteacher Angela Parker boards a stagecoach to meet a stranger who placed a notice in a Philadelphia newspaper, she carries two things: a satchel and a hidden return ticket. She never planned to stay. He never planned to beg. But Coulter Brooks doesn't want a captive — he wants a partner. And two weeks on the Wyoming frontier, under wide skies and honest stars, has a way of changing what a woman thinks she wants. A choice freely made. And kept.
A merchant seaman, Tom, is forced to retire when his ship gets sold for scrap. He's a senior ship's engineer. He returns home, buys an RV, and begins an extended vacation across the southern states. An alien had to land in the Arizona desert to make ship repairs. The alien gets hurt. Tom rescues the alien, who is a real ditz. They soon become fast friends. Our alien, Drozul, does Tom a big favor by fixing a birth defect in Tom. A great relationship happens between the two men.