Stories

James Frat is the school jock, he's captain of the water polo team, lives in a big house and has all the friends a guy would want, but when he meets Clark, his life is turned around.

WAR IS IN THE HEARTS OF MEN (Amorous Things, Library of Horror Press 2010) tells the story of two young men: one, a grocery store clerk; the other: a soon-to-be-armed-service member. In the midst of John's preparation to join the military, his partner, Markus, is almost unable to function, as his partner's past comes flooding back like a tidal wave approaching a shore in the form of words from a dead man's lips.

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.

A tryptych of poems based around a fascination, or a love, depending on how you define the two. It's only by taking a leap of faith into the unknown that you ever find out which of the two it is. If it's not worth taking that leap, it's only fascination. If you can bear to not take that leap, it's love.

This is not a feel good-story or a happy story. It is about the deep and profound love between two young men, in the beginning of their twenties, both of them filled with high hopes and big dreams. But then an unexpected thing causes events of disastrous proportions, destroying these hopes and dreams…but not their unconditional love!

Yes, it is another long story. But I can’t split it up. It’s the kind of story that has to be read in one go to get the full impact of it.

A sestina about coming to accept your sexual identity with the help of another – a person who instils the courage to love yourself for who you are.

A 'Once Upon a Time' story that begins with two broken characters who were never meant to have happy endings. It then becomes a tale of two sad people who find happiness in each other and their struggle for their 'Happily Ever After' against the world. In the end, it's just a simple love story between two not so simple teenagers.

A short story inspired by Prompt 158.

The story of a boy who discovers himself during the confusing and hormonal teen years of his life while attending a University away from home.