Harper Kingsley

Listed it as YA when I put it on Amazon because the main characters for the most part are teenagers, there's not a bunch of bad language (there's a reason I'm nicknamed "Foul-Mouth"), and it's at base just a superhero story.

"Susie Smith" was dug out of the wreckage of a collapsed building and was named by a nurse at the hospital where she was cared for. She is placed with a nice foster family and basically settles in to become a normal girl--never mind some of her weird habits and reactions. "Normal kids" don't cause waves, and waves are bad, so she's going to be normal.

Then she goes to Peoria Mall with her friends and gets caught up in a super battle between the Jester and the Teen Demis. She is separated from her group and finds herself swept up by the Teen Demis and taken to their Demi Lair.

From there she is told she has a loving father, a wonderful life, and a best friend that's been desperately missing her.

But if all that's true... then why did no one come for her while she was at the hospital? Why did no one come to identify her and take her home? Why was she left to think that she was alone and unloved in the world?… (más)

This story kind of popped into my head fully-formed and was only going to be a short piece--like 5000 words or so. Then, with no warning whatsoever, it just kind of exploded into something a little bigger and with more depth than the semi-PWP I thought it was going to be.

John and Charlie are roommates and best friends that are just hanging out with the girlfriend of their friend Michael, when she decides to ask them the most uncomfortable question ever: "What's it like being in an ersatz homosexual relationship?"

Once an idea like that is in your brain, it doesn't really go away. Which leaves John reeling from a sexual identity crisis he didn't see coming.… (más)