Workplace Stories

Lyn Davies is the Odd Man In - not the Odd Man Out. An Australian in a US college, Lyn is the sort to vanish into a crowd, even one as small as four people, despite many stand-out abilities. Just after Lyn graduates from high school life delivers Lyn three strikes; but this isn't baseball: Lyn is down, but not out. While trying to stand Lyn is served some fast balls, but manages them. One curve ball is what Lyn needs for a solid hit to get on with life with an unusual Pet as Therapy animal. / (Reviews)

A Time Storm Story
Our overworked home business owner hires a live-in housekeeper. He is pleasant but insists that it is his house, his rules. Her 'daughter' becomes quite the tease. 'Mom' gets competitive and ups the ante. However, the Boss hates a tease who can't deliver, so enforces a dress code. The Girls pay the embarrassing price, willingly, to their surprise. As do their friends when the new, very strict dress codes are enforced. The Boss is not unhappy when the teasing becomes a game. He can play, too. / (Reviews)

A guy discovers a strange bottle upon opening it, finds things quickly begin spiraling out of his control. A Beautiful woman appears then another and another. They all wanted sex, they all wanted him? Yowsa!

A story set in the Pinwheel Universe
A freighter pilot is plunged into a fight for his life when Borealan pirates board his vessel, but their sadistic captain may have more on her mind than just his cargo.

The life of a movie star can be demanding. And when that movie star joins the business as a young teenage girl, those pressures can be overwhelming. Corinne DeLoie is the her generation's Audrey Hepburn, a shining star in a cesspool of people who all 'need' something from her for themselves, and all against a backdrop of the modern Internet and twenty-four second news cycles. This story is copyright @2017 Gilbert Moore. All rights reserved except as required to be posted here.

A story set in the Pinwheel Universe
An ice miner from the barren moon of Ganymede gets the break of a lifetime when a UN job placement program relocates him to Valbara – a lush paradise planet with fresh air, clean water, and no need for pressure suits. He soon realizes that navigating the local culture and office politics will be a challenge. The aliens are small reptilian creatures with strange social behaviors whose females outnumber males by 7-1, and he finds himself the unwitting focus of attention in the workplace.

A story in the Von Solon's Universe Universe
A semi-retired pilot thinks he is having a bad day, only to discover he is in the way of powerful people. The political needs of a few warrant the removal of obstacles like him. Our hero unwittingly makes it personal for an assassin just doing his job.

An odd man meets an odd girl half his age. She is taking the same track his life took 20 years ago. It's definitely going to FUBAR his life in unexpected ways.

Captain Scarlett was recalled to active duty from retirement to do what he does best, make the solar system safe for travel and commerce. Armed with a deadly weapon, a criminal known only as The Scrapper can destroy any ship, station, or asteroid mine and pick them clean of valuables. His target: the riches of Mars. Can Captain Scarlett, Pandora and their army of volunteers stop The Scrapper? There's also Captain Scarlett Saves Mars!, and, Captain Scarlett, Martian Envoy.

A story set in the Pinwheel Universe
An ecological engineer is transferred to the war-torn Rask territory, site of the deposed Matriarch's deadly rebellion, where he's tasked with helping to restore the damaged jungles. To his surprise, he's quickly put in command of a pack of ex-soldiers who are more concerned with jockeying for status than learning how to drive a tractor. Finding his place in the hierarchy might be just as hard as greening the desert.