Krista - Stories

Written for the 2024 Poetry Anthology - Seasons

Jackson is a Senior in high school. Everything seems to be coming together to make this the best year yet.

Joel's day has been completely normal until he comes home to find his younger brother sitting out on the front steps. After a word of warning, his life abruptly changes when a careless mistake reveals his one secret to the rest of his family.

I don't know how Frequent these will be. They will all be found here though. I've been wanting to get involved, but laziness gets the better of me. But! Here is the first one anyway.

What else is there to do when your friends are having premarital sex in your car, then to visit the gravesite of a witch in an abandoned ghost town. What if ghost town wasn't actually a cliché?

Ridley wants a lot of things. To be left alone, for people to forget a stupid nickname, and for time to stop and rewind two years. What he doesn't want is to be featured in the school paper.

Potluck Theme: National Forest

Jace is a good kid, guy next door, dutiful to his mother, respected by everyone he meets. All that changes when he walks in on something that spurred him to action, an action that forces himself to look into the mirror and wonder just who he was. He doesn't have time right now though, right now he has to run.

Jason Colby hasn't always gotten along with his Parents. So after an argument that led to him walking out on them and the rest of his life, something changes that brings everything crashing back around him.

Entrusted by his parents to watch over his twin sister Tessa and her best friend Nikki, Wes Brantley reluctantly agrees to a trip. Scouting colleges in the north east, or really just wanting to see New York. The three hit the road determined to make it to the big city.

Daniel is single and in the closet. Then at his sister's wedding, he meets Alex, the bestman of his new brother-in-law.