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.

No, really. (Okay, one in college, but still.)

Curious? Take a look.