Master storyteller Bill Alive, author of THE PUNCTUALITY MACHINE, brings you five intense stories of love and relationships:

• In "Dawn", the romantic Rick makes his very first profession of love in his high school gym… to the devoted girlfriend of one of his best friends. But what happens next is the real surprise.
• In "Crags in the Sunset", the lovelorn Devin follows his high school crush to college, but freshman year does not go according to plan.
• In "Kevin and the Foxes", love takes a darker turn, and in a lonely house, high up on a mountain, a marriage nears the breaking point.
• Then, in "Die Auswahl (The Choice)", a time-travel elixir shakes up the stale marriage of a sour power couple… and also causes some rather global unintended consequences.
• Finally, in "Arcanus", when an enslaved teenager in Roman times is trapped on a brutal battlefield, he may seem as far from love as you can get. But his Latin name means "secret", and if he can survive long enough to discover that secret, the truth could change his whole life.

The twist? Alive wrote all these stories in high school.

From BILL ALIVE, the acclaimed author of CRAGS IN THE SUNSET, comes a gentle, ironic tale of unrequited love…

Rick loves Cindy. He knows it. For sure. And he needs to tell her how he feels, right now. Right here. In their (mostly) empty high school gym.

From acclaimed comedy writer BILL ALIVE, author of DON'T DANCE ON THE LOBSTERS, comes a short, hilarious parody of soap operas and college romance…

Giselle should never have let Kenneth spend a semester in Switzerland without her.

From acclaimed comedy writer BILL ALIVE, author of DON'T DANCE ON THE LOBSTERS, comes this goofball buddy comedy starring two unlikely heroes (and one relentless cop).

From acclaimed comedy writer and proficient sitter BILL ALIVE (author of RICH, SKINNY, AND SUPER SPIRITUAL!) comes a ground-breaking new humor collection that will not actually break anything, don't worry! It's just an expression!

From acclaimed comedy writer and frequent breather BILL ALIVE (author of RICH, SKINNY, AND SUPER SPIRITUAL!) comes a mind-blowing new humor collection that is honestly pretty okay! Truly, we've seen worse!