Stories

The Montana sky is wide, coffee strong, and wounded souls are never turned away from Two Spirits Horse Ranch. When Jake finds a young stranger left for dead at the north gate, his promise to protect him draws the whole ranch into a fight against fear, memory, and the men who may return to finish what they started. Warm, funny, tender, and suspenseful, In the Barb is a Western romance about found family, survival, and the kind of love that begins as rescue but grows into home.

Ash is a modern cowboy on a large cattle ranch in Oklahoma. He lives a fairly simple life and has found his place on Nasser Ranch, along with his friends and fellow cowboys (and girl). Things begin to change soon after their new hands arrive. And one of those new hands turns Ash's world upside down.

The year is 1891, and the Wild West is dying. Alvarez is a smartly dressed, smooth-talking bandito riding north with a stolen fortune, a lethal six-shooter, and one very spoiled cat. He travels alone, until he finds a half-frozen boy bleeding in the cold mud. Devon is an exile, violently banished from his Mennonite community and hunted by the very boys who broke him. As they ride together, Devon's cold logic clashes with Alvarez's flashy chaos. Slowly, the pinstriped killer and the battered runaway must learn to trust each other before the past catches up to them both.

Julian Hayes has it all: a perfect family, a devoted boyfriend, a life of luxury. His world begins to crumble when buried secrets come to light. Suddenly, the life he built, the people he trusted, and even his own sense of self are thrown into chaos.

Julian finds himself torn and he must decide who he can trust—and what he’s willing to fight for. In a house full of wealth, secrets, and lies, survival comes at the cost of everything he once believed was real.

"You can never trust a Crawley." Those were Albert Cooley's words to his sons, spoken every chance he got, and August did his best to do what was expected of him after his ma passed. The Crawleys and the Cooleys were ranching families, and they didn't mix, not ever, but more and more, August had a problem with letting his father decide everything for him. Was Fletcher really his enemy? Could he trust the man he'd butted heads with over and over, one he'd known pretty much his whole life? All he knew for certain was he was tired of all the conflict, and needed his life to change before he exploded. That's where his Gran came in.

Oliver is an Asian American teenager who struggles with his sexuality as he falls in love with his best friend Cody. He lives in a small town where he attends high school and plays baseball and basketball as he learns who he can trust as he comes out of the closet.

Note: This story had been posted earlier, but significant changes were made. New content was added between certain chapters and some of the story structure has changed. The story will also be finished this time! XD.

Daniel TwoCrow is on a father/boys bonding campout with his three sons. He tells them the story of the first encounter their ancestor, Jonathan Laughing Thunder TwoCrow had with the tickle monsters of good and evil.

The character Yosemite Sam isn't the Looney Toons character. Sam belongs to Mars Velvet, an artist on deviantart.

The Blue Tickle Monster belongs to The Blue Tickle Monster an artist on deviantart.

The rest of the characters belong to me.

Poems about Cowboys

Elias Sawyer and Theo Harding attempting to build a life in Merrickville, Ontario, three years after the events of Buckshot. Their peace is threatened when the Canadian Pacific Railway, led by ruthless agents Brant McCulloch and Valance, attempts to seize their land for a new rail line.

Nate is a young doctor who leads a conventional and monotonous life. Pax is the total opposite, being free-spirited, feisty, down-to-earth but mysterious... Nate wakes up one day to find him sleeping next to him, with no idea how he got there. He is immediately attracted to him and his presence drastically changes his day-to-day life. As he falls for the seductive yet elusive Pax, Nate is drawn into a mysterious world full of secrets, danger, and questions he never imagined.

Can his heart survive the temptations and perils that come with Pax’s world? Or will the darkness surrounding Pax prove too dangerous for even love to conquer?