His annoying neighbor makes him want to pull his hair out. The guy's 20-year-old daughter makes him want to pull something else. Little does he know that when she shows up at his pawn shop with an iPad that the interest on the loan isn't the only interest she has.
A man notices that another male passenger on his commuter train appears to be wearing nylon stockings under his trousers. The man becomes curious and fascinated as to why this would be so. This simple glimpse of nylon stocking changes two lives forever.
Broken Hearts
Hugh Davidson had the perfect marriage and the perfect wife for 36 years. But he learned the hard way that nothing perfect lasts. He wasn't a dramatic man, no grand gestures for him. A hard-headed Jacksonville banker, he accepted reality and all he really wanted was to die and for the pain to go away. But when you have loving children and loyal friends, and your boss and friend is worth a cool $50 million, sometimes they won't let you take the easy way out. You just have to keep going.
A story set in the Pinwheel Universe
There is an infestation of tiny lizards on the Pinwheel, and Doctor Reid is assigned a crack team of scientists to get to the bottom of it before they threaten the space station's air supply. The more they discover, the stranger things get. Where did these critters come from, and how are the enigmatic Krell involved?
Daniel seems to have gotten over the death of his wife to cancer after two years and started to pick up the threads of his political life again, something that once dominated his life to the full. Aunt Marina has just lost her job as a shop assistant, finding that after a lifetime dominated by sibling and sibling offspring care, that she is free to determine her own life, especially when she discovers the person who ruined her is living the good life that she deserved.
A Story in the Naked In School Universe
They are off someplace with their other grandmother, their father’s mother, Ms. Fiona. There is a big stink going on with the two grammas. Gramma Andrews, has convinced her granddaughters to go to school in the NIS Program. Gramma Farrell is against the idea, and has taken action to get the twins removed from their mother’s care, claiming she is unfit. She dragged the kids off to see a counselor today
A single mother working for a temp housecleaning service needs to earn more money. She gets a tip about a new client and goes to see about working there. It pays a lot better and the working conditions are... unique!
A Christmas Story
An odd Christmas tale of life, love, lies and red-headed nieces and lovers. Once you've gone 'red' our hero's life might never again be the same! As usual, note the Slow code.