Stories

These are my responses to some of the story prompts found in the forum. Click on the "Link to prompt" at the end of each story for details of the prompt and to see what other authors have come up with. This is my 2013 collection.

Aaron and Slade have their world changed with an announcement: Aaron's moving. His father's promotion is relocating him to Boston, MA. Aaron has no choice but to move with his family. Can their relationship survive the long distance?

Brian and Danny are married. But they are stuck in limbo and can’t get past it. Can an Advent calendar, some Christmas ornaments, and a cigarette get them beyond the stasis that has frozen their lives? Will the lights of Christmas shining in the darkness help them find the peace they truly need? This is a Christmas story in eight parts.

Follow the story of these two troubled teens as they are forced to face their demons, and find themselves.

It was a gift and now it's time to return it.

Rooming with the your good looking young employee makes the holidays turn from warm and loving to hot and loving!

In most of the northern hemisphere, today is the darkest, longest night of the year; the Winter Solstice. Not where I am, however. Today is just as dark as yesterday, and the day before that, and it will be just as dark tomorrow.

A story about the self-image and self-delusion within the world that we live in. It is a story inspired by It's a Wonderful Life

Following a tragedy, Jon and his father are leaving the US for a fresh start in the UK. Can Jon overcome his depression and self-hate and learn to live again? And what is it about the woods near his new home that gives him the creeps?

Dan has a problem. Or rather, many problems which combine to form one big... how do you call it, a conundrum? Unlike a lot of people though, he already knows what it will take to confront the conundrum and he sets out, on paper, how to do exactly that. In this coming out/coming of age story set in modern UK, I challenged the fundamental building blocks of a writer's craft. Dan's Conundrum is a commentary on what we write, why we write, and why we write the things we write.