The Distant Queen

by Terry Volkirch

This story is mainly about a romance between two young women who are from two different worlds. It's a fantasy story with some adventure but there are no mythical creatures and there isn't a lot of magic. It's really a sweet and tender romantic comedy with a mostly happy ending.

In chapter 6 (of 11), Gabrielle continues on her quest to get home with the help of a new friend, a woman she finds increasingly attractive. Will she resist temptation and focus on her quest?

Easy As Falling Off A Bike.
by Angharad
part: 349

1st Anniversary Episode - Celebrating One Year Of This Story!

It's funny how things happen sometimes. You're stumbling along as normal and suddenly because of some random event everything flips upside down.

"Journey To The Center Of The Earth," I read aloud. "Ding-Dong, you know that book is science fiction, don't you?"

"Well, sure," she replied. "But don't you know that science fiction becomes science fact?"

Easy To Bed - Calling You The Bike!
By Angharad
Part: 29 dozen

I woke in the night, a hand gently grasping my boob. I was about to say, "Not now Simon," when I remembered he wasn't there. I shrugged slightly and the hand slipped down my body. I sat up and looked at Stella, she was fast asleep. I felt a little relieved, it was innocent, an unconscious movement in her sleep.

"Is there any way," I asked, "that we can talk about this subject so that *I* can understand it? without a lot of malarkey?"

"I don't think so," he replied. "You can have incomprehensible or you can have nonsensical. Those are the choices."

The Deb Ball
by Bronwen Welsh

Larry had brought a contract for personal services with him.

Grace was not the usual Caregiver, and certainly not someone they would choose for their poster girl. She was crude, a brawler and a drinker. In short, she was still the Irish fisherman she had been before the DeCorvin process. But what happens when you run out of chances? What happens when your career turns on your ability to change? Could the brash Irish lass turn away from all she had been to embrace who she had become? Could you find joy in duties you despised? Her future in the company depended on it.

“That’s....” Chuck began to say before he felt the building below his feet begin to move. The shaking lasted only a few seconds. “We just had an earthquake.”

This was the third earthquake Charles McBride had endured since coming to live in Japan, and he wasn’t nearly as jaded by them as his fiancée seemed to be. “I won’t miss those things.”

Synopsis – The Swan Song committee and Gabrielle Tanaka begin to worry as both agents Ripley and Chrysanthemum fail to report in as scheduled. At the same time, Hiromi Sato sets her personal plans into motion.