Ultimately, the vaccine failed. In the U.S., the population grew increasingly restive and sharply divided.  Two factions spontaneously formed.  One believed in strict physical prevention – distancing,...

How far will a man go for the perfect woman – dreams, fantasies, conversations, actions?  What's perfect?  That depends on the man, depends on when.  Just met?  One night stand?  Two weeks, two months?...

A nine-hundred-year-old man, a long-dead mentor, a series of riddles.  Ahern, the High Omit, Ooon's most powerful wizard, narrates the final century of his life, a period of a growing three-way conflict...

Emmett Taylor – what can you say? He's a guy. He works a lot. Way too much. He wants a girl – he has a girl, or he thinks he does. Sometimes. When she's not seeing someone else. So, he writes to her....

Eddie is a player, playing the field, chasing the skirts, looking to score, whatever you want to call it.  His cute, crooked grin, his smooth, smooth patter, and his rake's eye for just the right detail...

Put a gun in a man's life, what does he do? Like stashing a hundred-dollar bill or hiding a chocolate bar, a gun adds temptation. He struggles with the urge. He fights it, mulls it, considers it. It weighs...

How do circumstances alter decisions or lives?  In the prior volume, The Would-be Lives of Adam Back, we saw Adam, his decisions and his life under two sets of broadly different conditions.  In the first,...

Theodore Allenby Marsters is a sociology professor facing imposed retirement.  His dismissal will move him aside in favor of younger academics.  Recently, he has spent his research time delving into bias,...

Medina Brown is the daughter of an American man and a Turkish woman.  Born in her namesake city, she grows up in the fictional town of Joseph, Illinois, an hour east of St. Louis, two west of Indianapolis....