David Shaw: Stories

When Confederate cavalry seize a Missouri riverboat loaded with gunpowder, schoolteacher Amanda Shilling realizes the resulting explosion could destroy her village. Her outrageous solution recruits the women of Stony Creek for a daring bargain with the enemy—one scandalous night in exchange for saving their homes.

A femal Washington bureaucrat emails some hot thoughts to the wrong guy and gets investigated as a possible security leak. And if you thought the IRS was intrusive...

A married insurance executive accepts two young technicians’ invitation to see the city from atop her office tower. What begins as an impulsive escape from routine becomes a dangerous game of blackmail, humiliation and increasingly willing submission high above the streets.

The teacher shouldn't have followed the gang into the gymn storeroom. Instead of rescuing a girl from a very embarrassing position she found herself in an even more humiliating one.