Stories

They were best friends, planning on going to college together. Sayer left for his annual summer trip; everything was fine ... until Sayer didn't come back. Birch waited for him but eventually tried to forget him; he went away to college and got his degree. Now he's moving back home, back where he was with Sayer last. Will the other man have come back to town while he was gone? Will Birch ever know why Sayer didn't come back to him?

These are my responses to some of the story prompts found in the forum. Click on the "Link to prompt" at the end of each story for details of the prompt and to see what other authors have come up with. This is my 2013 collection.

Dan has a problem. Or rather, many problems which combine to form one big... how do you call it, a conundrum? Unlike a lot of people though, he already knows what it will take to confront the conundrum and he sets out, on paper, how to do exactly that. In this coming out/coming of age story set in modern UK, I challenged the fundamental building blocks of a writer's craft. Dan's Conundrum is a commentary on what we write, why we write, and why we write the things we write.

A single Unicorn is forced onto a journey that will change his life and the lives of everyone he meets forever.

Jordan, a boy of 11, develops a unique friendship with a silent boy on his way home from buying candy at the store.

Former Union Navy scientist, Dr. Aron Adler is ordered on a rescue mission to an outer rim research colony located on an uninhabited planet. He reports to the USC Cassini along with two other scientists and a Union Marines unit. Dishonorably discharged for failure to obey orders, the Cassini crew shuns Aron. He finds comfort in the arms-and bed-of Marine Corporal Kane Robertson. At the colony it becomes apparent all is not what it seems. Once again, Aron must decide: follow orders or his heart.

Story 3 of the Finding Charlie trilogy. Joe passed away in our last story, but wants only one chance to say goodbye to the one he loves.

We first met Joe as the mysterious crush aboard a Canadian train in Finding Charlie. This second story of the trilogy tells the story of Joe's inevitable demise.

15 year old Charlie takes a train ride that changes his life.

The Philosopher's Son is a story about the fine line between love and despair, and the consistency of our humanity despite technological transformation. It's also a simple reminder of how love is both a personal illusion and a miraculous door into someone else's senses.