Addition

I do have a few more memorable stories to tell you.

The Spacemopod
Alexia Blake and her fiance, Jakob Kostka, are busy, hard at work in somebody else's basement at an invention of Jakob's. Jakob takes people prisoner in his spacemopod, a spaceship with incredible design and poor flying. Finally, he decides to dump them all into Lk. Baikal--the deepest lake in the world. Just before that, however, Alexia has a change of heart and rescues the people--almost giving up her own life. She is rescued by two quick-thinking passengers and a fourteen year old girl (If you read this, Evonne, that is you), and by mistake she meets Jakob again, who almost kills her. She is rescued by a Caledorian woman who happens to be getting married. Her friends find her again, and though she and Jakob do not get married, Jakob apologizes and she marries his brother.

The Minstrel's Gift
Miraana, a young peasant woman in the country of Ulaanistan, has had a lute given her by a minstrel; that is, one of many men who traveled across the interior of Ulaanistan preserving the folk music of the area and spreading news. He died, and now she has no one to teach her. Finally, she is offered lessons from the king's aunt, and learns along with his bubbly cousin, Isaa, and his serious, somber sister, Rachelan. He has just married a young sickly foreigner, Sofia. And Sofia only speaks English. Miraana is the only person who knows any good English and becomes the queen's dearest friend. The king and his queen are killed in war, and the king named as his sucessor Miraana's husband. Unfortunately, Miraana doesn't want to queen and moves to California. But in the meantime, she collected the dying culture and lore and songs of Ulaanistan and so became a national hero.

Swan Lake
Veronica didn't want to take her sister, Gabriela, to a ballet, but she had to. On her way back to the auditorium from the restrooms, she accidentally gets lost on an elevator that has a dancer in it--one of the corps de ballet, dressed as a swan maiden in the ballet, Swan Lake. Natali (that's her name) is very nervous, and the two didn't want or expect to get hurtled into a fairy tale land. Veronica can't understand what's going on, but Natali figures that they're in the story of Swan Lake, and the two, thinking they're there forever, get jobs at the palace. Then they meet Prince Siegfried, who must get married soon and has just fallen in love with an enchanted girl, Odette. Natali says that they will die, and the women try to save them. They do end up saving them, by killing the evil magician Rothbart and reforming his evil daughter, Odile. Then they find themselves back on the elevator, and they've not been gone for but a minute. So Veronica watches the ballet with added interest, and Natali performs beautifully. That's all.
Saro