Cole Matthews - Stories

Ray Smith is living a double life. One is conventional and safe and the other is...well, not as mainstream. He misses his lover and that gets him into a pickle. Who exactly is mining for the iron pyrite? Ray or the others?

Short mystery that is the prequel to the upcoming novel "So Weeps the Willow"

Red and his best friend Hal go on a quest. They are looking for buried treasure and for all their dreams to come true.

Morgan and Drake are in a pickle. Their business is doing well but needs some cash to get past this balloon payment. What are they going to do?

Dalton and Bauer were going to start a bed-n-breakfast, until tragedy struck. With his husband dead, Dalton is having trouble coping, and having a haunted house isn't helping.

Brian and Danny are married. But they are stuck in limbo and can’t get past it. Can an Advent calendar, some Christmas ornaments, and a cigarette get them beyond the stasis that has frozen their lives? Will the lights of Christmas shining in the darkness help them find the peace they truly need? This is a Christmas story in eight parts.

This is a story of twenty-somethings finding their way toward love. Can they get beyond their differences and terrible pasts?

Stone Carroll doesn't like Christmas, not one bit.

A place to put prompts

Sven Tollefson has never married. In fact, he's never had a relationship of any type. During the drought of 1888, he was worried about his hay and corn crops. Without enough to feed his milking cows, they'd never get through the harsh Minnesota winter. He hires a young local man to help him with this new idea called 'silage. This is their story.