Stories

"You ever meet those people, that seem to look not at you, as a person, but into your soul? Everything that you are, you've become, and you'll be. You don't know how to fix it, and they can see right through your fucking facade. I was terrified."

Seemingly apathetic, Caden struggles to deal with daily issues - or really, just to care at all. Though with the appearance of a red haired delinquent, things might start to change.

When you’re lonely and drunk, even a fire extinguisher can be a friend. Especially, if it starts talking to you!

I wish I could turn back the clock and go with you. How many times had Morgan St. John said these words, tortured himself. But there was no going-back, only going forward and live.

Nikki has trouble coming up with an idea for Keirnan's Christmas present, while his boyfriend seems to be pulling out all the stops with his 12 days of giving.

Kyle Blackner and Jared Maloney are at it again, but this time, the trials are not fraught with danger, merely possible disappointment. Having settled into their life together, Jared and Kyle decide it's time to adopt and begin the trek of finding children who need a new start with a new family. Can they overcome the obstacles and become father's to some kids who are about to lose their mother?

Dave Crichton fled the city hoping to escape the memories of his dead wife and the life they shared. Now he's building new memories in King's Hope, a small town in East Texas, where he's met a young man who makes him think there might be another chance at happiness. But he'll soon learn that the memories he sought to avoid are filled with secrets that just might save the world. Because in addition to being a successful author, a widower, a loving son, and the most eligible bachelor in a tiny Texas hamlet, Dave is also humanity's only hope for survival in the coming war against the gods. He just doesn't know it yet.

These are the original, annual, New Year's letters that I sent to my friends from 1993 to 2001. That was from two years after I moved into the building to a year-and-a-half after I left.

As mentioned, the letters were the basis for the book, and they often overlap the same material. But they cover more time and more characters, and are sometimes funnier because they're more compressed and somewhat more rude.

Something strange is happening in the house across the street from Danny, a closeted teen.

The Deep Oceans are the last frontier of our planet. Charting has begun some time ago, but it’s time to use the resources from it. What might that process look like when we finally go to that extreme?