Stories

A man was killed in Rome. His heart was cut out and his body thrown down the Spanish Steps. A ritual murder? Is the crime connected with a burglary case in London? Steve Mills and Adam Johnson investigate the crimes.

Nothing ever, ever, happens here.

While involving himself in an investigation of illegal activity on the internet, a detective uncovers something that he finds both baffling and sinister in nature! Hidden files on a computer draw him in to a world that he may not understand or be prepared for. What, exactly, is going on here? And can he get to the bottom of this new mystery, or will the efforts to keep it secret ruin him in the process? Read and find out!

A forbidden attraction on so many levels turns a town into a war zone....In this battle, love can hurt even worse than hate.....

Mateo 'Madison' Monroe is a genderfluid individual, who is androgynous in appearance. After a scandal forces their family to move, Mateo finds themselves a fish out of water in a small town in Colorado. Hoping for a fresh start to begin a new and to live as their true self while hiding their secret and past, Mateo soon discovers just how dangerous love & lies are

What if being your true self....is your downfall? Because in the eyes of some....Living your truth is downright despicable.

A lone woman wakes up in an unknown environment. She finds herself in some kind of testing facility. She diesn't know why shes there. She can't even remember her identity. Forced into a gauntlet of deathly, twisted science, will she make it out alive? Or will a major discovery change everything?

I took a story I entered in an Anthology and rewrote it and added to it to make it into a Halloween story. I hope you enjoy reading about Mason and Clark's relationship, even though it didn't work out. Mason erroneously believed it was over, but Clark had other plans. Will this situation ever resolve itself, or should Mason get as far away from Clark as possible?

A story of a teenager, Panah, who lives through a cataclysmic event and must figure out how to survive and who to trust in the devastation afterwards.

Zach and Mark trust each other with their lives but as Mark is about to find out, the extra step he takes, just might roll them a little too far...

Sometimes evil wears the garb of generosity and 'guidance,' and the young can sense this destructiveness around them. From ages ten to fourteen, Simon has his inherent goodness and resolve tested by the shady undercurrents within the small town where he is growing up. Will he come out on the other side of his adolescence as pure as he went into it? These five novellas will explore questions of faith and Simon's process of becoming a young man.