So far only read:

-- It Came From the Bottom of the Pool by NKH - 3*
Super quick read. Don't piss off the housebots.

Author said This is another of our Wordos story challenges. This time we wanted to write summer stories to read aloud in workshop. Our suggested topics were "It Came from the Bottom of the Pool" and "Alien Beach Party." Part of the fun of these challenges is brainstorming the possible topics, because we come up with twenty or thirty and whittle them down.

-- The Burr by Jennifer Linnaea - 2.5*
A little too intangible for me. A humanoid alien and a human are parting ways from the alien planet and the aliens are preforming a dance that plays out their interaction including the future consequences. (I think that is what I read)