A Serendipity Chronicles Story (2) Her name is really Belinda. Determined not to spend her life behind the counter of her family's corner shop, she walked away - from the shop, her home, her town. Eventually she found her destiny as a sailor... and love. Companion to 'Serendipity' / (Reviews)
A Story in the Magic Ink Universe
Mark Kent, a college student, answers an ad for a part time gardener placed by the O'Connell sisters. He finds more that a job, as the sisters have been under a curse for a long time. Mark has the Talent and strength to remove it, but doesn't realize it - yet. The job turns out to be more than part time.
Rich joins the service to get an education. His girlfriend at the time informs him she is pregnant and he returns and marries her. A long distance relationship doesn't work. She is gone and so is his daughter. A widow woman soon takes over and they both find happiness.
Ken, a gawky English boy, steals his sister's passport to become an au pair in America. There he encounters an inattentive husband, a frustrated wife, a rebellious daughter, and an amorous boy next door. How will he, now she, manage it all? (no sex, just a sweet, TG story)
A widowed man returns to take a walk along the river bank again. A place that's been special to him since his childhood. Only - because it was interrupted - his walk that day was to be a little different and it wasn't the first time that had happened to him either. / (Reviews)
A Swarm Cycle Story
The Governor of the colony of Nuevo Angelino recognizes that the ad-hoc educational system in use in his colony isn't producing sponsors -- so he sends a team to Earth to collect some professional educators with a Confederacy perspective. This results in a new and unusual kind of pickup. Prepare to see it through the eyes of a couple of dozen of the participants...
A young scientist meets the boss's daughter at his department's Christmas shindig. Sparks fly, sperm flows and suddenly a shot gun wedding is looming. Problem: she is pregnant from another man. Or so she thinks. It's not really a Christmassy sort of story but it may fit the spirit.