This story is for those who create their own rules to get what they desire. Billy Mecklenburg got his entire band hired as beach park activity counselors at the Sentry Ridge summer park so they could prepare for a major battle of the bands show. Unfortunately, the park manager's customer service-centric rules complicated Billy's plan with an unreasonable workload that kept the band from valuable practice time. Billy decided it was time to create new rules...in a way that wouldn't get them sent home before their time. Imperial Rules can be found on Smashwords.com.

"Top Notch" is packed with music, Olympic-style athletics, and outright fun! It contains no conflict...except when Billy was ordered to create events where even the teens less dedicated to performance could compete equally. It contains no drama...except when Billy has to accommodate the excluded and the excuse makers. It contains no internal struggles...except for when Billy admitted he had become less dedicated to something that used to mean a great deal to him. Top Notch can be found on Smashwords.com.

The guys in Metzgerhund are having a rough stretch. The fuse box in their practice shed blew up, but the maintenance manager refuses to fix it. The band's website started glitching, but the hosting company wasn't responding. An out-of-state delicatessen challenged the park to a softball game, but none of the park employees wanted to play. Three 'entitled' park guests make a sport of disrespecting the guys in Metzgerhund. Billy used counter-negativity to rid his band of these problems and turn things back in their favor, but he never saw the even bigger problem he was causing for himself. Negative One can be found on Smashwords.com.

A start-up video game company approached the guys in Metzgerhund about a promotional arrangement. Calvin, Reggie, Jason, and Sam were all in on this deal. Billy had concerns...including about why his band mates didn't alert him this company was coming to the park for the sit-down. Maybe they thought he wanted nothing to do with video games. So, why were they pushing the deal harder than was the company? Digitized can be found on Smashwords.com.

For the first time this summer, Sentry Ridge was packed with insanely beautiful teenaged girls---unattached teenaged girls!---who were in the area for a dance video audition. Even better, every one of these girls had an ambitions approach to life that impressed the guys in Metzgerhund. Except...Reggie, the band's biggest flirt, was nowhere to be seen. Was he avoiding these girls? Or did he know something his bandmates didn't? Scenic Route can be found on Smashwords.com.

The guys in Metzgerhund are not getting much sleep. Blame their workload and their ambitious attempts at improving their music. Unfortunately for Calvin, Reggie, and Jason, their waking problems regarding the band and their personal lives are following them into their dreamworld. Billy and Sam's problem is that neither can sleep at all, so their minds are playing hallucination games. Sam's are freaky. Billy's are much worse. ZZZZ-Less can be found on Smashwords.com.

The guys in Metzgerhund were emailed by the battle of the bands coordinators, saying they might not have qualified as participants after all. Before they could do anything about it, their park manager assigned them to officiate a four-day eight-team intra-company basketball tournament to accommodate a local moving company. This many days away from their music was bad enough, but the park manager turned up the pressure and the stress by warning them to officiate the games to favor one team over the others. How Metzgerhund handled their stressful predicament was near perfect. How the seven slighted teams responded to their situation was bonus. Unfortunately, the park manager deemed the entire weekend a disaster, and blamed everything on Metzgerhund. Even the acts they didn't commit. Stress Fractures can be found on Smashwords.com.

Being threatened with termination can be traumatic, so Billy created a contest so his band mates could focus on having a good time instead of their current unfair situation. At the same time, a student was at the park to observe the band mates for her senior paper. She and Billy worked well together, and even helped solve a problem for the other. She even helped Billy with the band contest. Metzgerhundometry can be found on Smashwords.com.

A rash of graffiti and water balloon attacks hit Sentry Ridge. Metzgerhund was being verbally harassed by the maintenance manager for not taking their music seriously enough. Billy received an email threat that somebody was going to trash Metzgerhund's equipment. Billy saw where some of these events were coming from. He created one of them himself. But he had to figure out a way to see everything he didn't know about. One of the realizations in particular stunned him. From Somewhere Out in Left Field can be found on Smashwords.com.

The Sentry Ridge work season was almost over, and things were almost to Metzgerhund's liking. The guys identified who misled them about their status in the battle of the bands contest. Billy and Reggie discovered who was attempting to sabotage their equipment. Calvin and Jason dealt with a bully within one of the visiting youth groups. Well...Calvin did most of the work. Reverb can be found on Smashwords.com.