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An eclectic collection of short stories about love and betrayal, hope and despair, lust, ambition, jealousy, danger, and decisions that can change entire worlds. * PAY THE PIPER, DANCER - Pamela Jaye Smith Hollywood is a hard place to be a failure. Perhaps even harder is to live with your own success. This story is about pooling resources - of disenchantment, betrayal, and hope. * SUIT OF LIGHTS - Pamela Jaye Smith The Matador and the Ambassador's wife are having a torrid, secret affair. Or so they think. The seemingly proper and decorous life in diplomatic circles hides undercurrents of intrigue, ambition, and treachery. When duty confronts desire the result is all too often danger. * WALLS OF PARADISE - Pamela Jaye Smith In a fantasy wilderness a young hunter breaks all the rules and steals an exotic animal said to be a charm for easy childbirth. He risks his livelihood and his life to save his beloved wife and their new child. * 37 GRAMERCY PARK - Geffrey von Gerlach The reputation of a celebrated Manhattan man-about-town is put in jeopardy when an amorous classmate from a forgotten life threatens to expose him for the imposter he is. * JAVA JITTERS - Geffrey von Gerlach An aging lothario attempts to woo a dazzling counter boy at the local coffee shop only to find that he has gone to a lot of trouble for nothing. * UNDER THE HOLLYWOOD SIGN - Geffrey von Gerlach The mystery of what became of aspiring actress Peggy DeCarlo and why her suitcase had been walled up inside a closet in a Hollywood bungalow for over half a century is finally revealed. * THE GENERAL'S GUIDE - Kaye G. Gregory General Ginette Gameraldin must make a decision that will affect every being in the cosmos. The godling Kumarans are requesting yet another genetic alteration and the General is too well aware of how those earlier changes had upset commerce, society, and evolution. * THE OOPSIE MEMOS - Kaye G. Gregory Toxic Masculinity... Testosterone Poisoning... The Culture of Rape... Sometimes it s