Stories

Seth Dacosta loves thunder and lightning, which is good, because he lives in South Florida where tropical storms roll in and make noise all of the time. Unforntunately for Seth, the man he loves does not feel quite the same way about the destructive beauty of nature. After two years together, will Seth discover why, every time there is a thunderstorm, he finds his boyfriend hiding in the wardrobe?

Angela is stuck. It's Christmas Eve and she and her young daughter have to be in town for an unpleasant task. After dinner they take a stroll through the holiday streets and discover something pretty amazing.

Carl gets call from his ex talking him into a night out with friends to 'heal the rift between them'.

There are no friends attending except Carl's brother and boyfriend. Carl smells a set up, however, there is a truly delicious waiter.

Please note - this is a true story and only names (and in some case sexes) have been changed to protect identities.

This story is written as part of the site's White Elephant Prompt Present Game. The prompt read - “It’s yellow. So yellow. You look up, a smile pasted on your face. ‘I love it,’ you say, and his happy grin makes you….”

Anthology Pot Luck Theme: Turn Back Time

British born Chinese gay man Stanley Cheung wakes with somebody else's hangover.

Not only that, but he is laid out on someone’s couch in a grungy student digs where a strange woman is telling him he smells like a brewery. The thing is Stanley rarely drinks.

When the woman finally leaves, he finds out that not only has he woken as six-foot-three, ripped, blond-haired, straight Caucasian Don Bradley, but today is not Friday.

It’s Thursday.

Again.

He is reliving the same day but this time as somebody else.

My Christmas was all planned out until my mother called.

She and father are coming for Christmas...Why? What bad thing did I do to deserve this?

Then my Andy steps in and it becomes once more My Prefect Christmas.

This story was created for the Newsletter Game : Pride Month Headline! My headline was Major Changes for this Sunday's Pride March.

From that I created the story of Terrance "Terry" Burgess and his adventure on the day of the NYC Pride Parade. Enjoy.

Patrick is a writer for a food magazine. Although Christmas is over it doesn't mean the work is. Cancelling out on his sister's dinner he asks for a raincheck. He gets it only to have it called in for that weekend. His niece has just graduated college. Now he will need to deal with snow storms, delayed flights, young adults, a crush, and a fall. Pat will have to deal it all, just maybe later.

Cinema engineer Craig is tired of life on the road; eating junk food, staying in bland hotels and never knowing if he’ll get home at night. He can’t see any way out until an unexpected turn of events and an encounter with a fellow traveller makes him realise there might be an alternative.

...nothing pointed about me...