Stories

Cole Parker's Second Place Prize-Winning Entry:
This kid forgot his jockstrap, and you happen to have a spare? (May, 2008)

This is the 12th story in the Naptown Tales series, which can also be found at Awesome Dude and Nifty. Please see the Introduction for important background on the series

Charlotte lives with her neko girl in the shadow of a foster father she hates, but rarely sees any more. Life is peaceful since she moved out of her foster home, and taking in a new rescue catboy to nurture seems a logical expansion of her little family.

Finn, her foster brother, runs afoul of his father for the same reason Charlotte had - being caught in a compromising position with a member of the same sex. All he really wants is space to figure himself out, and act just like the neko he adores.

Zack is struggling to make friends. The only person who appeals is Finn, who for some reason resists every overture of friendship...

Marc Jesmond's a single guy nearing 40. He's a shy, unfocused sort of man, meaning nobody any harm, but he's about to undergo the most challenging time of his life, leaving him depressed, suicidal, then mad. and I mean angry-mad. Just how will he cope?

Nathan Harris is an angry loner, who just wants to be left alone, until an interaction with Corey Andrews leads them both alone together in school suspension. The two soon learn they have more in common then either of them realized.

This is an odd little story adapted from an idea for a collaboration a long time ago. It changes points of view and goes from first person to third, although not within the same chapter...I think. The name comes from a 'saying' or 'colloquialism' that equates everything being jake; to everything being fine or good, which in the end it is. Or is it?

Two families decide to combine a summer vacation with a professional conference, convened to discuss a newly excavated ancient Roman Mithraeum.

Their teenage sons, James and Winston, meet for the first time on the flight to Munich. James is immediately infatuated with Winston. There’s more to this trip than either of the boys expect.

The protagonist, a centuries old vampire tells us of his death and rebirth into darkness at the age of 17, deals with trying to remember several years of his life that are blocked from his memory as well as coming to grips with his vampiric lineage. ~Where you end up in life is not so important as how you got there~

Part of the Lost Soul Series and The Boot World this is Ian and Kevin's story. In the summer of 2011, they move from a rented flat in The Northern Quarter of Manchester to their own house in Prestwich. As couples do they reflect on the past and look forward to the future. Unexpected news changes their lives and gives a glimpse into the past of their friend Manny.

This re-write of the original story posted in 2022, is more than an edit, added dialogue and description tells the story better and has been achieved with the help of raven1.

It may help, but it is not essential, to read the other stories in the series.

This is the story Enrique Alberto, just another ordinary guy. But not everything is as ordinary as it seems.

In a world ravaged by despair and an unspeakable curse, the Gods lie imprisoned and forgotten, their followers all but destroyed. When a merchant unexpectedly bestows kindness on a stranger, a series of even stranger events sweeps Mordred on a quest to kill a dragon, talk to the dead, and learn how to play the flute.

On hold while I finish this up. My apologies for the long delay!