Stories

Colby is a college senior who’s looking forward to dressing up in his costume and spending Halloween having a good time at a gay bar. However, his evening of fun quickly turns into an enduring nightmare, but will it ever end?

A man once revered and hailed as a hero is suddenly treated as an outcast. What had he done to undergo such as tragic reversal of fortune.

Deputy Anderson is out patrolling the back country roads on Halloween, to make sure the kids have aren’t still out raising hell. That’s when he happens upon a badly beaten Randy Hoover. Who did this and will Randy be ok or not?

Jem lived in a kingdom where only the Noble and a few others lived well and he seemed doomed to a life of poverty and misery. He, along with a group of other boys, had a chance to improve their lot in life, but would it all end with a final roll of the dice?

Tristan Rader and Gavin Munson met as four-year-olds and almost immediately became best friends. However, their time together ended the summer before fifth grade when Gavin’s father got a new job and his family moved away. As the pair grew older, their paths would cross and bring them together in unexpected ways, only to have fate intercede and cause them to lose contact yet again. Will the journey of life win in the end or will fate triumph? Only time will tell.

This is my entry for the Fall/Winter 2021 anthology, ‘A Winding Path’

Christopher Cordes was never able to celebrate Halloween because his mom thought it was devil worship. She would tell her son the story about several boys who'd gone missing on Halloween when she was younger, so when Chris was older, he decided to find out if that story was true. He started his own investigation, but what did he find? Was the story true, or had she just made it all up. Chris was shocked by what he discovered.

Jarrett Ray and Greer Spaulding are best friends and lovers, but they are also archeology majors at the University of Arizona. When they get a chance to go on a dig with one of their professors, it turns into an experience they won’t soon forget and possibly one the world won’t soon forget either.

The birth of twin boys ignites a wave of generosity that not only consumes the local area, but soon becomes contagious and begins to spread. What sparked this chain of events to happen?

Prompted by a question from one of his students, Mr. Hammond proceeds to fill the class in about the background a multitude of famous gays, lesbians and bisexuals. He also gives them a brief lesson on the history of homosexuality.

Sheriff Taylor is notified that an object has been seen streaking across the sky. In seeking answers, he discovers it was a meteorite, but then people start getting ill. Are these two events related and what are they going to do to stop the spread of the illness?