The Beauty and the Poet (And Other Short Stories)

1. The Beauty and the Poet: Julie doesn't have much of a presence at her school. Average at just about everything, the only the claim to fame she has is her friends know she writes poetry. But that all changes when the far more popular Jake Mars, who seems to carry a natural spotlight around with him, decides to use Julie as a means of hiding from his ex-girlfriend, Annabelle Smith, and Julie finds herself getting more and more caught up in--and more and more attracted to--the beauty that is Jake Mars.

2. The Shopkeeper and the Thief: Malisande has run her corner items shop for many years, but in all that time recurring customers have been rare, with one exception--a girl with a knack for selling prize possessions whom she strongly suspects is a thief. As such, when it turns out the girl has sold Malisande something she shouldn't have and asks to have it back, Malisande agrees it can be sold back to her--for a highly inflated price.