Stories

Kyle has one best friend and he adores his best friend and he tells a story of his best friends life.

When faced with discrimination at work, a young man must confront a bad childhood memory. He is quite literally driven to the edge by a small town society that seems to hate him. He makes every effort to be acceptable and normal, but in the end he must accept who he is.

I had had many chances to hook-up, but I wasn’t built that way. Of course, there was the obvious fumbling with others growing up, nothing more serious than a couple of hand jobs after high school which left me unfulfilled. Anita Bryant, Jerry Fallwell, Newt Gingrich along with the not so moral majority, with their contract on America was unsettling to say the least. Gay boys and men were dying, and no one knew why, and much less interested in finding out why. To the best of my understanding, it was virtually impossible to catch AIDS or venereal diseases from your hand, warts maybe, eyeglasses were a risk I’d take. Then Mikey entered my life…

A series of flash fiction chapters which tell their own individual story, "James, Don't Falter" overall explores the innermost feelings of a young man and his struggle to hang on to the guy he loves for more than a few moments.

A collection of tales from ancient times belonging to a long-gone civilization.

Larry was the son of a famous opera singer and a well-known conductor, but his passion in life was to be a medical scientist. However, when the pandemic waylaid his plans to go to the Bronx High School of Science, instead he applied to LaGuardia, New York's premier public high school of the arts. Just as an intermezzo is a short musical bridge, Intermezzo brings together characters from other stories in the New York Stories series while filling in some gaps. Told from the point of view of Larry's girlfriend, Robin, he learns that sometimes the shortest path to one's goals isn't the straightest one.

Brought together by the most incredible of circumstances, ten young men embark on an unexpected journey that’ll change the face of humanity as we know it . . . and tip the world on its head, while having the time of their lives!

University student Jason misses a train and finds catching the next train totally changes his life.

When Josh and his family moved to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, he knew he'd be helping his dad to renovate their new apartment. It hadn't been touched since the building opened in the mid-1950s and it needed a ton of work. Even so, it cost as much as they got for their old matchbook house in Brooklyn - close to a million dollars - and the only way they could afford it was to gut it and renovate it themselves. Josh was no stranger to handiwork, having helped rebuild after Hurricane Sandy, when he was just seven and could barely hold a drill. Little did they know that this time they'd face a hurricane and a global pandemic.

Patrick's parents gave him a surprise birthday present. Little did Patrick know the present had a surprise for him!!