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.

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.

Thirty-five years old and still alone, Paul's surprised to hear from his college buddy Mac. Sure, they've kept in touch through the years, but something is different this time. What makes this birthday so much more special to Mac?

This story is about a young man trying to break through the expectations set by his father and small-town life.

Written for the 2014 Poetry Anthology. A Storm is Coming.

A story about a boy who moves to a new town completely different from where he and his family used to live. It deals slightly with mannerisms dealing with religion and homosexuality.