Stories

Joel's day has been completely normal until he comes home to find his younger brother sitting out on the front steps. After a word of warning, his life abruptly changes when a careless mistake reveals his one secret to the rest of his family.

Cursed to be female during the day and male at night, Adain fights against his own blossoming feelings for his male best friend. Written by Mika Tertius (Thirdly) with creative input from Toma and Luna M. (Bi, BL, Drama, Dark Fantasy?, Warlocks, Witches)

What happens when a secret threatens to destroy everything you hold dear? How do you hang onto your sanity when your world collapses? These are questions Maverick finds himself searching answers for. Will he find any?

Larry was the son of a famous opera singer and a well-known conductor, but his passion in life was to be a medical scientist. However, when the pandemic waylaid his plans to go to the Bronx High School of Science, instead he applied to LaGuardia, New York's premier public high school of the arts. Just as an intermezzo is a short musical bridge, Intermezzo brings together characters from other stories in the New York Stories series while filling in some gaps. Told from the point of view of Larry's girlfriend, Robin, he learns that sometimes the shortest path to one's goals isn't the straightest one.

Gay or Bi even Straight doesn’t always apply to every situation. Looking at space and dreaming of traveling to other planets won’t make you an astronaut. Maybe a billionaire can create a way to get into space, but most of us would never know what it actually is like.

Lest we forget our dead.

Posted on this, the fiftieth anniversary

of the UpStairs Lounge attack,

June 24th, 1973.

Michael feels trapped. In his poor, conservative hometown. In his dead-end job. In caring for his grandfather. Everything changes when he meets Eric, the new curator for the railroad museum. Carefree and refreshingly confident, Eric guides Michael to places he's forgotten, reminding him that it may not be too late to follow his dreams.

40,000 words.

Gabriel, his father Jonathan, and his best friend Elliot arrive in Thailand to enjoy a relaxing tropical break. But this vacation will inadvertently unleash obscure emotions, hidden desires, and forbidden passions.

Born with hereditary spastic paraparesis, Simon had spent most of his life in a wheelchair, unable to walk and barely able to use his hands. To his parents, home schooling had seemed to be the only way for Simon to get an education; yet Simon was smart and yearned to be another Stephen Hawking - not to live with his parents until they became to infirm to care for him. He decided to take a chance on applying to the Bronx High School of Science, one of the best public secondary schools in the world. Going to a public high school would be scary, but there'd be new opportunities to live life, and to love.

Trent has gotten far in life by keeping quiet and without question, but the funeral of a distant uncle unravels glimpses of his silence's consequence.

(a short story for pride month)