Both written originally as screenplays, these two fast-moving novellas share the author's somewhat twisted and hopefully amusing take on sex, and also a cast of his quirkiest characters. One is a light romantic madcap comedy, and the other is a dark psycho-sexual thriller. Meet a runaway host mother about to deliver a billionaire baby, a puritanical General with a dark secret, a secretary who hunts rapists, a phony preacher with a deadly surprise in his Bible, a ruthless but naive tabloid reporter looking for an expose, a socialite teenager who operates a lurid fetish website, and a nice middle-aged couple out tempting themselves with a taste of the swinging fast life. Good not entirely clean fun.

Written to accompany movies, the two novellas (and an imbedded surprise) are fast-paced light action adventure stories, fulled with fun and humor, and a delightful collection of strange characters. In post-apocalyptic High Arena, a family of nomadic free traders in the high Rockies must confront an authoritarian survival group in control of the only pass to the south. Their hope lies in Joker, who flies an antique ultralight "skycyk" airplane. In Buttercup's Run, a mismatched mercenary team must move a politically-sensitive cargo across Mexico in a computerized super-truck with a mind of her own, pursued by a gallery of experts and idiots.