Stories

What if the ordinary tools in a man's workshop had extraordinary personalities? From a ladder with big ambitions to a hammer with plenty to say, follow the humorous adventures of a collection of tools whose everyday lives are anything but ordinary. You have read the authors introduction in an earlier story. Honey Magnolia and Michael Prescott are the pretend authors of these stories who are 2 writing partners that want to bring comedy to everyone, especially the humor in the most unexpected places.

This is a collection of short comedy fiction pieces that take a satirical look at various subjects and settings.

Sean hates Halloween. He just doesn’t see the point. He’s 14 and his parents insist he go to a party, but that means wearing a costume and there’s another issue. He’d rather dance with the boys, but he’s deeply in the closet. He wonders if his friend Chloe can help. Maybe she can help come up with a costume. But when Sean shows up at her door, she's conveniently absent. However, her twin brother, Chad, is home, and he just happens to be gay…

When Travis Buck becomes famous for playing golden boy Jackson Pryce in the TV hit Palisades, the role begins to consume him. Off screen, he hides trauma, addiction, and a secret relationship with his best friend, Will Schluter — while his co-star Ken “Kendo” Dolan lures him deeper into self-destruction. As Travis’s real life mirrors Jackson’s unraveling, fame, love, and control collide. Forced into isolation to survive, he must decide whether to keep performing the perfect life everyone expects — or risk everything to be real.

Travisty is a story about identity, survival, and the cost of being seen.

Martin is still feeling the effects of an acrimonious divorce and more recently the death of his mother.

He receives an email that could be a scam. It triggers events that upend just about everything Martin believes about himself. His path forward is not going to be smooth. Can he navigate this new life to make friends, find love and reestablish a family?

Ben and Cole are roommates, gym bros, and competitors who don't back down. When Ben impulsively bets his roommate Cole that he can spend the entire month locked in a chastity cage—loser has to clean their apartment for a month—Cole expects him to crack by day two. But as the month drags on, the guys try to outlast each other, until a surprise side bet ups the ante.

Ninety crew dead. Ten left. All men. The ship's held together with duct tape, the AI keeps suggesting they turn it off and on again, and the captain is a meteorologist who fought a can of ravioli with an axe and lost. They're lost in deep space, eating rat, and absolutely not qualified for this. But they're alive. For now.

Honey Magnolia and Michael Prescott are two writers who work together at a publishing company and have developed a wonderful friendship. When Honey comes up with an unusual idea for writing comedy, she invites Michael to become her writing partner. Together, they begin exploring the possibilities of turning ordinary things into extraordinary stories filled with humor, imagination, and unexpected surprises.

An alpha without a pack is like a house without a roof.

Theodore Pembroke has lived for years with only vengeance in his heart. As the last of his kind, he knows the dark forces that destroyed his pack will come for him one day—and when they do, he’ll be ready.

But even the best-laid plans will often go awry. The enemy he’s been preparing for turns out to be an unexpected ally, and a sudden and fragile spark of hope makes a mess of everything.

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Before Admirer X and Menorah, twelve-year-old Elijah Silverman loves books, mysteries and the certainty that every puzzle has an answer. At Oakfield, he expects difficult classes, a brilliant library and very little peace and quiet. He does not expect things to start disappearing.

As suspicion spreads through the Year Seven dormitory, Elijah finds himself drawn into his first real mystery.