Sh'Dn, the Girl Who Wrote.

A mixed bag of interesting short stories. A little girl is selected to try for the seat of wisdom, to prevent war on another world. but she must grow up and learn life and wisdom first. She tells some horrific history first, and it scares her parents. The rarest jewel in the universe fall almost to the feet of a travelling man, and people die for this Sky Diamond. A boy becomes a cadet journalist and retells the life of an aging First World War veteran. and it is horrible. A man must drag himself out of an almost hermit existence to save a young woman. He must re-join the world for her. Another man finds himself to be the 'Last Man On Earth', and it is not fun. A steamy tale of love in the Australian Bush, and Jess gets her man. Another tale has the worlds largest Marlin, and there is great motivation for the angler to land it. a very steamy tale. A Japanese tourist encounters a strange man at a billabong. He is scared afterwards. A professor is writing an explosive alternate history of world history of the Twentieth Century, but dies. One of his students has all the files and the almost completed book. it scares him.