May-december Stories

Becca Novak is building a new life at 40 years old after too long in a stale marriage and an unfulfilling career. Her new apartment is small but one of several in a renovated Victorian hotel near downtown Tallahassee, F.L., charming if noisy and quirky. She's got hipster neighbors downstairs and a crazy cat lady next door...and a dreamboat blond Adonis who lives across the hall and is only 28. Becca's pretty sure she can't stand younger men, and Dreamboat has a different girlfriend at the start of every month. It's all cool, though. It's great. Becca's just happy to have a chance to live her own life. Alone. It's awesome, really. Totally super. ----------------- **AUTHORIA** This was originally published under a pseudonym with the title "Becca's Front Door." Encouraged by friends, I pulled it down and am re-posting it under my own name.

An eminent politician with ties to royalty, Uday Rajvansh had no use for a wife. Any wife. Clamoring for a respite from her never-ending bad luck, Niyati Mishra was in a desperate need of a husband. Any husband. A tragedy tied these two unlikely candidates in holy matrimony. He cursed his stars. She fell to her knees and thanked hers. But abruptly, their marriage lost its cause. His freedom was within his reach again. However, he wasn't sure if that was what he wanted anymore. For it had become clear to Uday that Niyati was the one he had been waiting for, all along. Subconsciously. Reluctantly. Desperately.

Liam Clarke and Hajar Gharsallah could not be more different: Different Generations, Different Religions, Different Cultures they are oil and water but they must work together to clear ten innocent people accused of a terrorist attack in the City of San Antonio. But there are forces at work in the halls of power that are determined to stop them. Can they work together before Texas explodes, and can they navigate the tangled web of emotion that are leading them from conflict to love.

Daphina Suthers parents knew the eldest son of their neighbours the Gilbertsons for years. His name was Daniel. Although he looked Daphina age, he was almost a decade older than her. She was taken by Daniel, but didn't know if he felt the same way. That is until one night when he wouldn't take his eyes off of her.

Raven Andrews finds himself with the job of his dreams. He gets to search through an entire manor looking for treasures. The only problem is that the owner wants to sell it all, discard each and every item to the wind, or possibly to the highest bidder. Lord Ashleigh Demalier does not want to be a lord. His inheritance and the title that comes with it couldn't have been bestowed on a less willing subject. History means nothing, the future is everything, and his life in London far away from the old manor in Gloucestershire is far more tempting. But then, old records and letters appear, indicating that something might be hidden inside the estate. Something thought to have been lost for centuries. Ash, as he likes to be called, starts to find Raven's passionate attitude refreshing during the hunt, and perhaps, there's more to history than he first thought.

Troy Walker has lived on Trenton Island all of his life. He has seen many things on his little slice of paradise. Losing his mother, his half-brother Zeke get discovered, he has even seen the rise and decline of his marriage, and once he even found love. Scarlett was a quiet teenager after moving and being rejected by her mother and her new husband, Scar finds solace in a summer job at Troy's Place a staple on the small island of Trenton. She is immediately taken by the owner despite him being twice her age and with a playboy reputation. Sparks fly leading into the a summer of deep passions. When Troy decided to let Scarlett go, it was hard but it was what he felt was needed for her to live her dreams. He never expected she'd be back, engaged to a man who wanted the one thing that he loved as much as her. His restaurant, all for a over-priced resort that would ruin the small community of Trenton forever. Troy decides to fight for his little town, but his feeling for Scarlett might just be the one thing to bring down his guard and lose his little slice of paradise, forever.

Erin Devereaux was her parents miracle baby. She was born many years after they had her sister, Josie. Erin's two biggest dream was to become an international soccer player and live forever with her parents. But her dream died when she lost her parents in a motor accident at age 12. She was forced to go and live with her sister whom she never really grew up with because of their age differences, and her husband Teddy. In dealing with her tragedy, she rebelled against all authority and went through a rough teenage phase which nobody could help her with except for her brother in law who helped her to direct her anger into positive actions. In spending time with her brother in law she discovered a deep passion for community service, classical music and books far beyond her grade, all which later helped her in her chosen career as a medical doctor. When Teddy Bowman first met Josie Devereaux, it was the first great thing in his life. The second was when Josie agreed to marry him. He thought he had it all - the boy from a rough neighborhood who made a thing for himself and became a man that could be loved by a beautiful woman like Josie. But his happiness was short lived when Josie died of cancer a couple years short of forty. He couldn't imagine more to life without Josie. He'd lost the most important thing to him. Erin who'd been abroad for many years working with the Doctors without Borders organization came home to be with her brother in law after hearing about the death of her sister. Erin and Teddy had been robbed too much by death and while Teddy was about to give up and accept defeat, Erin was on a mission to help her brother in law as he'd helped her many years ago when she'd been the kid in a rough place. Would Erin be able to prove there's room for more in a heart without first losing hers?

[COMPLETED] When life gives you a second chance at love, can you really walk away? Even if he's half your age... Remington, almost fifty, is settled in his life. He has experienced true love in the past and lost it. He has given up on finding love like that again. Yet, when he meets art student, Matthew, feelings Remington thought were long gone begin to resurface. His orderly world is thrown into chaos and Remington is not sure what to do about it. One thing he does know, now that he has found Matthew, he is not willing to pass up the opportunity to spend some time with the young man. cover created by: @meha-k

Harry Potter's daughter Selenia is so strong she has trouble controlling her powers. One day an accident sends her back in time to when her own father attended Hogwarts. Stuck in the past she has to live there, while keeping her secret safe. However when she meets her father's rival Draco Malfoy, her life changes. Can their love last even after Selenia gets back into her own time and the love of her life is a grown man? /// NO underage pg18!

A young ruler summoned scientists all around the world to fulfill his ambition. Subjects collected. Contract legalized. Facilities built. It would be contributed many great things to the world, wouldn't it?

What if mental illness isn't actually an illness? What if it's a marker-- a signal to anyone who understands what to look for? What if it makes you more powerful than you can imagine? Willow has panic attacks. Alastair is manic depressive. Mari hears voices in her head. None of them are what they seem. A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: "What if he wasn't sick, what if he was special?" Two years ago on the anniversary of my brother's death, I asked myself this question. I was sad and missing him and I suppose the side of me that's still a little girl, liked to imagine a world where my brother was invincible instead of a seventeen year old paranoid schizophrenic. His illness would eventually drive him to take his own life and even twenty years later, his losing battle with mental illness it is a defining part of my life. The idea for this story is outlandish-- what if being mentally ill actually made you a sort of superhero-- and it's NOTHING like my traditionally published books or my social media persona. In fact, when I finished this last year I filed it away and never really planned to put it out because it's so different. But then I realized that even if it was weird, I kind of loved the weirdness and since it's never been read by anyone or edited (yikes!) there doesn't feel like a ton of pressure for perfection. So this is it, an oddball idea that feels pretty special to me. I hope you don't think it's too terrible. ;)

Is it truly love if you have forgotten the man? An accident caused Reen to be in a coma for two months. Upon waking up, Reen realised that she had no memories of the man who claimed to be her husband. Join Reen in her journey to rediscover her love.

Meet the dysfunctional Tesoros of Iloilo. On the outside, they may seem like your normal conservative Filipino family; but inside, they are brewing with all sorts of trouble. The patriarch, Dindo Tesoro, has yet to recover from the death of his wife years ago. The eldest son, Kit Tesoro, likes to drink alcohol and pick fights. The only daughter, Bianca Tesoro, is having a secret affair with her older university professor.

Just releasing my pent up thoughts about a guy I like at work.

Join my characters as they come of age in a summer and somehow feel more lost than before

*COMPLETED* The complex love story of a young actress named Amelie and her May-December lover named Daniel

Andrea Owen had always been a sucker for older guys; preferably handsome, tall, masculine with really light colored eyes with a dark and dangerous aura. What she does not know is that the man she had been looking for all her life had been there ever since she was born. In the form of her father's best friend, Lance Gallagher.

Eula Kazuya is a girl with an intuition that any NCIS agent would kill for, and the self-esteem of a hikkikomori. These make her the perfect match for her open-source intelligence job at the Philippines' Department of Security and Defense. She's talented, and some people are starting to notice. The General is a sociable, esteemed man with a painful past, who sees Eula's talent for picking important things out of thin air. He decides to take advantage, but he realizes he's gotten more than what he bargained for. Odd couple. National intrigue. Serious romance... and heroism. Do I have your attention yet? Then read on.