Lili Garcia stands at the edge of London's punk scene, playing bass with one of the city's wildest bands. When Lili meets a guitarist who is haunted by the life he left behind, she begins searching for what she really wants.

Ben Wireman is partially deaf and completely insecure, but he feels normal when he's with his best friend, Tyler Nuson. But Tyler no longer seems interested in Ben. Who is Ben without Tyler? Is Tyler really all that "normal" anyway?

Carol and Reggie were different. They thought different . Reggie could talk "the ears off a corn stalk." He was an expert on history, like a walking Wikipedia on ancient times (if people could stand to listen to him.) Carol hardly talked, but her hugs could tell you the world. She could solve quintic polynomial equations. And a 4x4 Rubic's cube with one hand. They were autists. "Special needs" people. Savants, kind of. They were perfect for each...

They didn't know that they were going to solve a mystery that had raged across decades. The mystery that tore down Mary's heart and soul to pieces. She sat at the diner only to drown her sorrows in their famous apple pie with cinnamon-vanilla ice cream. John only came to sample their famous dessert he'd heard about all over town. Mary had just found out that she'd been lied to for years. The truth can hurt. It's those emotional claws and shrieks...

You don't expect a goddess to visit you and start talking about your writing, or the lack of it. Yet here she was, dressed in a garment so thin that it was nearly transparent if the sun hit it just right. And, here with some message for me. Of course, she didn't get to it right off. Like her dress, she used her conversation to get my full attention before she could tell me what that message was. It didn't take long for me to see she was dead serious...

An unintended result of a terrorist bombing a children's hospital, the Lazurai could kill a person without touching them. The government made it worse by their experiments. All the children wanted was to feel love like any child. When they grew older, their powers increased. And they found they couldn't be stopped. Chuck hears a rumor of one coming his way, to his remote way station on the highway. But he can't leave his wife, who's dying. So he...

I was sent here to keep me safe. From horrors I wasn't supposed to know about. But they didn't understand the first thing about arriving in a female body with raging hormones and a genius beyond understanding of myself and anyone around us. Of course, they wiped my memory. That didn't mean I couldn't figure out that I didn't belong. Then I met someone that I could almost trust. Not to give me away. Because if anyone really found out who I was...

Of course it was a normal day. SNAFU - as usual. But no one noticed. Because it was so normal. So SNAFU. The world felt more and more programmed. Or pre-programmed. Life had become a video game, a matrix-spawn. All around me thought this was normal But no one considered that I would simply revolt. Because I found out a secret. By visiting an old used book store. One where they somehow made a living selling used books over and over. There...

A minimalist tale of an Emperor who sought Truth that one of his student-scribes found - but then disappeared... Excerpt: One day, as court was held, the teacher was in a particularly foul mood. The weather was humid, hot, and everyone's robes stuck to their skin from sweat. The teacher strode up and down the ranks dispensing his cane strokes with rapidity. The one student was receiving more than his share, and the teacher found himself gravitating...

Sue returned to earth in what looked like a meteor to those watching. But it was an escape pod from the Moon colony. Where the cities had gone to escape Earth and its governments' leaving the rest of the planet to its new dark age. She had fallen unconscious when she popped the pod's hatch to get fresh air. And had been saved from the surrounding fire by the one witness who saw her land. A sentient, telepathic wolf. Now the dominant sentient...