Stories

Jessy is someone you have to believe—quite literally. That's his superpower. Without uttering a single word, he can make anyone believe absolutely anything.

In a world where everyone with even the slightest superpower is labeled an "Aberrant" and forced to live on a so-called reservation, Jessy is left with a choice: He can do what the law requires, or he can be a supervillain. There are no other options.

He and his boyfriend choose supervillainy.

Sometimes life just doesn't fit neatly within the lines. Having grown up in foster care from age 5 to 14, tattoo artist Sevastyanov Diaz knows that well. Fortunately, family can be found when you least expect it to grow beyond tragedy. After he loses his foster sister, Ava Diaz, and is left to raise her daughter with the help of her ex-boyfriend, Aiden Ward, life takes on new twists and turns, including new discoveries about a man Sev thought he knew everything about. But broken crayons still color, and if people are meant to be together, they always find a way.

A chance meeting in a park on a sunny day changes the lives of Tanner and Branch.

(This is a story I wrote and posted on tklfrat about ten years ago. I ran it through Google Gemini to fix the grammar mistakes.)

Arjun, my husband, is home sick when I go to the gym alone and see a twunk posing and trying to take physique pictures. I end up giving him advice and a hand, things develop from there.

Raven Bran always feels stuck behind his brother, in basketball, at school, and even with friends. But when he meets someone who truly understands him, everything starts to look different. Sometimes, the right person is all it takes to finally feel seen.

Heartbroken Ashok seeks wisdom in his quest to heal
The prince that loved him has married another
And in the ancient kingdom of the Khmer, answers are
found in the river, and in the stone.

A story about the, "Ghost of the Watikan Forest," a wolf where he's not supposed to be.

This is a story about a young man from Sweden who loves chess and looks for like-minded friends. The story is set in several countries at a very interesting time in chess history, the early 1970s. It is not a story about the game of chess as such but it contains references to actual players and famous games.

It's been nearly eight years since Nick Linscott saw Ian Reyes, his childhood best friend. The two were inseparable, but Ian left town suddenly, and Nick hadn't heard from him since. So, obviously, his return is just as shocking as the day he left. Nick, expecting to reunite like a scene in a movie, is shocked when the boy who came back is not the same bubbly friend he knew. Ian is cold, harsh, and all the things Nick dislikes. But the two of them keep finding each other in the same spaces, leading Nick to wonder if they'll ever be as close as they once were.

When I agreed to a chill weekend at my best friend's place, I didn’t expect his older brother Dylan to be back—or to look like that. I should’ve looked away. I didn’t.