Jane Ross has just been shanked with a ball point pen. Who knows why? So here she is, in the emergency room, waiting to get a ball point pen extracted from her innards.Surgery goes well. The neighbors, not so much. The nurses, slightly better, even is they do make her do her breathing and belly exercises.Then they hand her off back to prison, where things are pretty much he way they are. *shrug* It's prison. What are you going to do?Trial, yeah. Pretty much the same...

Magda of Ferrin is on her way to Delta City to fill the marriage contract she made with Armin of Pothrin. She’s been looking forward to this for a long time. However, the Great River stands at flood, the weather is foul, everyone has to comment on her family situation, and Mother Ferrin herself is in Delta City to oversee the wedding. What else can go wrong? Magda’s about to find out.

Pearl Waidler works from home, if you could call a repurposed hotel room home. It's not much, but it's what she has, sharing with her very significant other, Nicky Lightfoot. They make do with what they earn or can scavenge, including an old coffee table that serves as handy flat spot, kitchen table, dining room table, or office desk.At least until it starts feeling her leg...What's a woman to do, when the furniture propositions her and won't take no for an answer?

Stephanie's spending way too much time with her new team mate, leaving Stell out in the cold. Fell and Chosen don't like her either and they like everybody. And then she invites herself to Stell's home and then one by one, Stell's family members begin to disappear. Can Stell break the spell over Stephanie and save her family from this stranger?

Beam Mahoney just woke up in a place she doesn't recognize, next to the last person she ever wanted to wake up next to. Where is she, and how did she get here? who are these people? And can she get a ride into town?

Xhavean's the only sane man in the house and that description is questionable on the best days. Today's not the best of days. He has three civilians to get to shelter, but how can he get these people to safety when the world has been destroyed around him?

Every day is a jewel: most are flawed, some are perfect, but every one is precious.If you think nothing ever happens around here, you'd be sadly mistaken. Between escapee heifers, runaway children, morning staff meetings, trips to the (sort of) big city, and interrogations by the county attorney, small town life is pretty exciting. I barely have time to stop and catch my breath!

The Lakeside Festival is this weekend, one of Stephanie and Stell's best times to make enough money to pay for the next month. Except that the new Park Supervisor has turned them down for a permit, forcing them to look elsewhere for a venue. And then the Cosmic Artifact starts having fits or seizures or something, which just absolutely ruins the rest of Stephanie's day. Ruins two days, actually. How will Stephanie and Stell pay their rent and resolve the Artifact's problem?

There's always something going on at Corey House, whether snooty and entitled guests, or an elephnt on her way to a sanctuary three states away, complete with entourage.Why an Elephant?Jenda doesn't know, doesn't care, doesn't want anything to do with the elephant in question. She doesn't know why it has to stay here. she hads work to do. she doesn't have time to look at elephants, no matter what her kids say.But it seems she's the only one who thinks that way, as t...

Hannelore Quinnel has given Cameron Lieberman a mission: kill the matriarch. So Cameron has come to the heretic's bazaar with stiletto in hand to carry out this mission. He's not a killer. He's an ordinary man. He doesn't know this matriarch, much less need to kill her but Hannelore Quinnell put the stiletto in his hand and told him to kill the matriarch.The heretic's bazaar claims to hold the wisdom and guidance of every deity and philosophy even dreamed up by the mind of man. How...

Every town has its historical mysteries and Helen has just discovered her town's very own. There's a story here somewhere, and the truth to be revealed, and she takes it upon herself to solve it. The mystery man only appears when the conditions are right. He disappears in the blink of an eye. What is his story? Helen sets out to find out everything she can about him.But there's her college classes to keep up with and her sister too, who's got troubles of her own. Grandma Chen and he...

Beau is a simple man. He leads a simple life and finds transcendent pleasure in simple things, like a shell on the beach, or cup of chocolate on a cool morning. It is a pleasure to do good for others, like his neighbor Wilson, who is building a whole new means to explore the universe.Will Wilson make it to the moon, as he wants so fervently? Does he really need to steal everyone's batteries to get there? And is a wrecked phone booth really the best vehicle for the project?