Stories

Elliot is living the good life, even though he hates his job. Then he meets Max, who helps him answer some tough questions he didn't have the courage to face.

After betraying his lover, Samuel is determined to make things right, no matter what the cost. They flee Oscar's captors, only to be confronted by the very truth that put them in their predicament in the first place.

Buying and restoring an abandoned house was supposed to be Greg and David's retirement project. After losing David, Greg has to decide whether or not he wants to honor David's dream. After receiving a sign he can't ignore, Greg proceeds to buy a dilapidated Victorian and begin the restoration process. Along the way, he discovers the house holds some surprising secrets, which can help his healing process, if he takes the time to listen.

Young adult fiction is full of teen detectives - The Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, The Three Investigators. Following in their footsteps are The Turbot Brothers. What happens when teenage detectives grow up? Do they continue their investigative ways, or take a more a more traditional path in life? Jim and Joe Turbot have to face the answers to those questions while revisiting their most memorable case - the case of Cloud Rider.

Sometimes we have to embrace what life throws our way, whether we want to or not. These two poems are a tribute to aging and the losses that inevitably occur, and how we deal with both.

April is National Poetry Writing Month, and this is my collection for 2021. The goal is to write 30 poems (one per day) throughout the month. The majority of poems are responses to prompts supplied by Jan Hutchinson. Since I turn fifty this year, a lot of them will feature remembrances, musings, and thoughts about the next fifty. A retrospective of my life.

Some bonds cannot be broken, no matter the time or distance.

The world: full of dangers unknown, but those who watch step in when needed.

And sometimes need help from those they protect.

April is National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo), and the challenge is to write 30 poems (one per day) throughout the month. This year, I decided to do something a little different. Each day (or every other day, depending on my mood) I will write a 'postcard'--a short poem about my daily dealings with the COVID-19 pandemic. I will also write other poems as the mood (and daily prompts) strike me. I think it will be an interesting exercise to see how the poems change across the course of the month.

It's Peter's favorite holiday, and he has something special up his sleeve. When things don't go exactly as planned, he tries to turn it into an April Fool's joke in an attempt to spare his feelings. The joke's on him, though, when his actions produce a result better than he ever hoped for.