Stories

In a city of rigid laws and hidden magic, Halo City High School's Senior Class is a powder keg. From jock rivalries to a janitor who’s actually an industrial spy, these students are breaking every rule. In Halo City, their forbidden love may be a sin—but getting caught is business as usual.

Two poems about life, love and choosing my husband.

A grumpy hedge knight desperate for a squire buys a blind stable boy for three years' wages. He expected useless. He got a boy who can hear lies in a man's voice, calm any horse with a touch, and navigate by sounds others miss. Now they're marching to crusade, surrounded by enemies who'd destroy them—if the magic rising in the East doesn't kill them first.

Jace never thought he'd see Louis again, especially not at a wedding packed with old faces and even older drama. One encounter is all it takes for old feelings to come flooding back, making it impossible to pretend the past never happened. As the reception unfolds, Jace is forced to face just how much he's still carrying and, maybe, what he still wants.

Avery is a consultant and master of traveling light. A breakup sends him home to lick his wounds—a temporary situation, but aren't they all? The variable he didn't plan on is Dino, the high school jock turned divorced mechanic. Does their weekend fling have a future? Or will it end in another exit strategy?

Gravity and love work in similar ways. Sometimes they even make people into Satellites of one another.

At a high-stakes Easter swim meet, sunshiney GWU swimmer Austin gradually breaks through the icy rivalry of Georgetown star Petr, turning competition into a steamy romance.

In a glass-and-marble New York life, Nora Beaumont, an immaculate fixer who keeps other people's chaos on schedule, looks up one day and realizes her own marriage to Daniel, a beautiful cipher built of calm and covenants, has been filed under "maintenance." On the eve of her birthday, a single, reckless wish knocks something loose, and a stranger enters their lives to rearrange the furniture of their desire.

What begins as a staged surprise becomes a slow-burning reckoning. As Nora watches the man she loves become someone she's never met, she must decide whether reinvention is an act of love, or a controlled demolition.