Stories

Timmy is staying with his best friend and has a nightmare.

James has just been attacked at school. The new boy at school comes to his rescue, and finds out the truth about James. A truth that James has told nobody.

These are my responses to some of the story prompts found in the forum. Click on the "Link to prompt" at the end of each story for details of the prompt and to see what other authors have come up with. This is my 2014 collection.

Matthew dreams that he is recruited as an Angel of Death.

Three brothers were raised listening to their grandmother's fairy stories. They never believed them, until a morning spent in a local forest shows them that not only were her stories true, but also that Nature has teeth. Will the boys survive their encounter with the fey of the forest?

The Ancient Egyptian Myth of Osiris told three different ways: in prose, in poetry and in a play.

Scott is fourteen and gay. JB is fourteen, and Scott's only friend. JB is from the wrong side of the tracks, his parents are crooks, and his older brother was the biggest bully his school had ever known. Scott wants to come out to JB. Should he?

Two short fairy tales, based on two short Welsh tales ("Kaddy's Luck" and "Ellen's Luck"). This is for the 2007 anthology theme "Fairy Tales"

Michael has been through a lot, and his best friend Gavin has been there with him through it all. Michael now needs a kidney transplant. Just how far will Gavin go for Michael?

We all have a Christmas wish, something we want more than anything. Michael has just been granted his. This story is based on the 2004 anthology theme "Christmas".