Stories

When your best friend is in love with you and you're not gay, how far would go for them?

Zak is a shy quiet 15 year old whose mother gets him a summer job at a local ranch. Zak's sure it's going to be the summer from Hell until he meets 16 year-old ranch hand, Dusty.

An unhappy soldier becomes friends with a young cowboy, but it grows to much more for both of them.

A gay couple just out of grad school moves to a new town, new ranch, new jobs, and become surrogate parents to an abused gay teen.

Lem and Mattie have been best friends, and neighbors, since they were little. Both raised on Montana ranches, they grew up in a world of 4H and Rodeo, but Lem finds himself insatiably attracted to Jeff, an older boy that just moved in.

Lem soon after discovers that he is also the object of his best friend's desires. It's a truth that blows up in both Mattie and Lem's faces, as Mattie finds himself seriously depressed, and Lem finds himself lost without his best friend.

Darrin has had a difficult time, but has resigned himself to academia and solitude. But his new office mate arrives, and he is Darrin's living wet dream. A dark haired masculine cowboy with a little bit of attitude, Mitch is going to shake up Darrin's life. But neither of them knows the highs, and lows, ahead of them.

As part of the creative writing course I am taking, a recent assignment was to write a chapter to go at the start of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men - written in the style of Steinbeck. I have decided to share it with you all.

Who knew that a rejection would lead him to something much bigger and better... and his journey would take off like that!

Continuation to "Better than the best" Summary : Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart, otherwise it would all mess up.

Comp and Fletcher, two people trapped in their roles find brief peace with one another.