Stories

Hadrian, accompanied by his loyal guide Ouray, returns to the familiar yet unsettling town of Redwaters, North Carolina. Their journey is spurred by Fleur's distressing nightmare, which foretells a looming danger that threatens to disrupt their lives forever. Meanwhile, a magical portal transports Zain to Redwaters on the eve of his nineteenth birthday. Amnesic and with no knowledge of his extraordinary powers, the young prince meets Hadrian, Fleur, and Ouray, who try to help him find answers to his questions.

This story is about Grant A Wellstead, his five closest friends, after the death of his parents and sister in a horrific car accident.

At a result of the accident, Grant becomes very wealthy, when the courts award compensation for the loss of his family and from the injuries he received from the same accident. His only living relatives, his Scottish grandparents, move to Australia to care for their grandson, as he recovers from his injuries.

Afterwards, Grant travels to Scotland with his grandparents, to complete his education. Come along and enjoy the ride of Grant's ups and downs in life, hang on as it gets bumpy...

A clever and confident seventeen-year-old named West begins a risky game of deception with a fellow classmate. As lies and half truths weave a web of deceit, West is left with more questions than the answers he was seeking.

What happens if the mind is unwilling, yet the heart is open to the possibility of "What if?" What if one learns to give in to his fears, to his doubts, only to see that it is simply a step to knowing what love really means? This is a story of man, whose past and present collide, the power of his regrets and forgiveness, and his dreams of a life he hoped to have had, would only give him the courage to ask himself a question that opens the one truth that most of us do not ask...

A father thought he'd come to terms with having a gay son. He learns otherwise.

Being the oldest and growing up in a large family can be hard, especially when you are gay and the family is extremely homophobic. You are constantly being compared to your deceased father. A man whose stature and deeds are always increasing, as time goes by, and are held up as your goals. Anytime you reach those goals, your mother moves the goalpost further away.

You never seem to measure up. You are always being told that you are worthless and will never amount to anything since you cannot measure up to your father. It never mattered that you were a straight "A" student and that you were an athlete.

2007 Anthology

I'd heard of others coming unstuck with internet dating but I was too smart for that. Or so I thought.

2007 Anthology

Everyone knows what Christmas is about. Jesus, of course, some say. Excessive consumerism, others reply. But is that really all there is to it? Two young teens learn that it might be more than that.
A short story for reflection.