Starshine — Susan Hart

Help Wanted: A large mall springs up seemingly overnight in place of an apple orchard and suddenly; the number of stores inside intrigues the townspeople. The startling thing is that that all of the shopkeepers seem to know about the applicants even before they open their mouths. Empathy – A man with psychic and empathetic powers decides that the fragile and topsy-turvy state of the union is about to collapse, so he devises a plan to fix it. Raymond the Automatic House – After a war, an ex-soldier stumbles across an apparently empty house in the woods.Terran Spies on An Alien Planet - A government official on a planet currently at war with earth, finds two supposed spies at a bar and suspects they are Terran agents. They are pretty ‘dense’ and after grilling them for a period of time, he follows up on a couple of tips they give him and their supposedly real reason for being on the planet.