Growing Pains Flash Stories Part of the Growing Pains universe
In New Pleasures, Rhea writes some homework to infuriate her teacher. It is NOT light reading and should only be read by people reading New Pleasures.
To keep his mother, Tala, and himself going, fourteen-year-old Filipino-American boy Angelo takes up with American sailors near the 1973 Subic Bay, Philippines, naval complex when his B-girl mother is too ill to turn tricks. They have had a hardscrabble existence in the Olongapo City slums since Angelo's sailor father shipped out thirteen years earlier. Angelo is ready to service sailors, but being handed around proves to be a rough, loveless life.
I'll never understand how a woman thinks. Maybe it's better that way; just pay the bill and say "Yes Dear" to whatever I'm told. Deep down inside I knew on this thing of ours they were right and my way of thinking was wrong. It all had to do with priorities. Maybe Eve had the experience to know different though. Was it 'Fair' to Kim and Megan was a question too? What about to Trish then. I knew these were some questions I could not answer myself.
A Swarm Cycle Story
Outpost series #1
An interesting foursome listens for Sa'arm communications at the deep space listening post Heinlein station. A short peek into the intelligence side of the Swarm Cycle.
Fourteen-year-old Italian Matteo finds himself orphaned in a remote Catholic medical and orphanage mission near mid-nineteenth-century Xi'an, China, and being used sexually by the Jesuit doctor in charge of the mission as well as the other priests. Having heard of the beautiful European boy, the Warlord in Xi'an arrives to sample his charms himself. He does so as a conqueror before learning just how charming the boy is.
Lily loved her job. She wanted to be the best interrogator she could be. Besides, there was no reason why she couldn't enjoy the process and give her sources something to remember for a long time.
A story set in Myaasia
This is the sotry of how the "Elven warmage dance" came about during the the great elf-orc wars at end of first era. Ameiliee's Stories are short stories about places and people told by the true elven sorceress Ameiliee Liamyn. They are mostly meant to give color to places and people in the world Myaasia and support the main stories.
A story in The Commander Series (1) The teleporter fried while trying to transport the commander home from the frontlines. The commander ends up not only in a different place, but a different time as well. He is immediately considered hostile and attacked by Earth's militaries.