Stories

10 people; 8 hours – conflict and opportunity

Shiro is sweet on one of the bakers in this year's competition.
Keith is just going to have to bake his heart out.

Everyone else is going to... help. Puns are helping, right?

(OR: The Great British Bake Off, but Sheith)

This story, set in the Sanitaria Springs universe, follows Dylan Whalen who was introduced in the short story 'Curious Nate'. Some of his history may be pertinent to a complete understanding of this story, but it isn't required.

Jake is a firefighter that gets promoted to Lieutenant and transferred to a new Station. He meets Peyton and falls head over heels for him almost immediately

Roan has a pretty normal life. He's managed to buy a house in a nice neighborhood overlooking a lake; he has a decent job, a few groups of friends, and even a god son. What he doesn't have is a lot of experience in romance and, even what he does have has been questionable at best. One night, when the wife of his friend comes to his house with his god son in tow...things start to change in ways he's just not equipped to handle.

Events on a small New England college campus, following an exceptional one. Gil Andrus and his husband, Pete Sordan, follow through the usual faculty politics and the unexpected mystery. And Don Burris, the detective from The Pendleton Omens, reappears.

Note: this book shares roots and occasionally overlaps with my other book, Quabbin, which is also set in Waldron, Massachusetts, though in a national clothing company. But they're different books with different sensibilities.

Ryan's parents own a successful but simple Dim Sum restaurant in town, but he never knew that it would be where everything would start. He's instantly smitten with a guy at first sight, but can he pursue this romance even when he gets caught up in a puzzling series of chilling murders spreading around town?

An imp from Hell teams up with an angel from Heaven for joint missions in the human world. However, the best-laid plans can go astray, and even otherworldly entities can be blindsided by unexpected developments.

Sawyer is too busy to worry about something as frivolous as Christmas. College is hard, but he’s focused on getting into law school. Kable is studying to make the family business, Del Buon Gusto, into a successful chain restaurant. When a party debacle at the restaurant gives Kable a chance to get close to Sawyer, he’s shocked to learn Sawyer’s a Christmas Grinch. He's determined to change Sawyer’s mind, but their dates are one debacle after another. Can they have a Merry Christmas?

A collection of flash pieces.