Three months on from his fateful phone call. Eric's life continues to evolve and change with help from his new friends.

Tony and Geoff's relationship appears solid and their love life is progressing. But not everything is such plain sailing.

Collection of stand-alone prose prompts and other shorts. Quick bites, in other words. A tasty snack or two.

Mukisa Okello, a refugee from Uganda meets Jack Hollingsworth, who's recently widowed, in an retirement complex. The encounters between the two men change their lives.

Benji Usher thinks Halloween should last for a month. Not everyone wants to join in ...

My occasional forays into verse

A lonely, older man has spent his life hiding his sexuality. One day, by chance, this changes. Then a young man arrives to help him widen his horizons, as he slowly comes to terms with life as a gay man.

Josh Mackenzie has led a confined, restricted life until one weekend in May ...

Encounters on public transport are mostly fleeting, raising questions, never to be answered. Liam Kendrick needs to make some important decisions. While considering his own life, he observes a stranger's as they both commute back and forth.

A new intern at the Grand Theatre is sent to find some costumes from the store. It doesn't prove easy ...

Working at Merryweather's used to be a secure job. Now the weather market's been opened up, the competition from other companies is fierce.

Geoff is shy, lacking in self-assurance, and not out to his family. When by chance, he meets Tony, a fellow musician, he can't believe that anything will come of it ...

Not all demons are evil, sadistic bastards. Some, like our hero, want change in hell. Gardening, a professional work ethic, reading romances. Perhaps, even love.

It's been a great night, but the glow soon fades ...

A soliloquy.

A young man from the city has great ideas for redeveloping his late uncle's quaint, rural house and its garden. A present he finds in the attic changes everything ...