Three Houses: short stories from Houses of Common

Franklin Watts patches together the victim of what he thinks is a freeway accident. Life gets complicated the surgical assistant, his dog, and his ex-girlfriend when Franklin and the victim find they have the same hitman. Julienne wrangles her four children’s wild bonobo instincts and their engineered potential. She sees the brilliance they can achieve, but knows - from her own mother's lifelong incarceration - what else they could accomplish. Graham Webley\'s first day in the police academy is his first time meeting an extra-terrestrial, his new friend and partner, Sckiik.