unilive - Stories

Robbie and Mark are young Irish musicians, on the brink of massive worldwide success. Robbie is secretly in love with Mark but hides both his feelings and his sexuality to protect their friendship and the band they’ve built together. When Mark begins to suspect that Robbie might be gay, their friendship begins to shift and Mark is forced to confront feelings he never anticipated and question everything he thought he knew about himself.

Spanning more than ten years, the story follows their lives, their rise to fame, and the complicated evolution of their relationship as love, friendship, and ambition become impossible to separate.

Damien, a sound engineer lands a dream job with U-N-I, a world-famous band and becomes drawn to the guitarist, who is already in a relationship with the charismatic frontman. As friendship, jealousy, and desire blur together, he struggles to stay professional while hoping for something more.

I missed my characters so I wrote new stories about Robbie and Mark, frontman and guitarist of a world-famous band

The first story starts with a song Mark never intended anyone else to hear.

What follows is something neither he nor Rob could have predicted. A new chapter, a different language, and a part of himself Mark hadn't quite realised was waiting to come out.

But some songs carry more than others.

And sometimes, the hardest stories to tell are the ones hidden between the lines.

*The creative adult is the child who has survived*