Stories

Who knew that a rejection would lead him to something much bigger and better... and his journey would take off like that!

When Magic combines with Love, the result is a combination so strong that it will alter the fate of all that surrounds it.

entry for W_L's holiday contest

What is existence? What makes it valuable? Having everything? Feeling everything? Knowing yourself?

My first short story.

What is done cannot be undone.

But what is broken can always be mended.

This story is only for those who enjoy medieval, magical fantasy starring boys and teens. It is from The Book of Heroes, the source for “The Translator,” “The Paladin,” and other stories. It is a simple story in which the love between a squire and a young cleric becomes a political liability—because the squire is also a prince.

The summer before his senior year of high school, Jake is thrust into a dangerous world he had no idea even existed. Before his inheritance the only things Jake was overly concerned with was his strange dreams, and figuring out how to deal with being in love with his best friend. Now, saddled with a heritage that makes him the sole heir to both the Guardian and Night Stalker kingdoms, Jake learns that not everything is black and white, and the people he can trust are few and far in between.

2006 Fall Anthology -- A young man faces the consequences of a religous ritual and finds faith in places he never dreamed possible in this first person account of the last year in the life of a human sacrifice during pagan times.

Ellis's mother did him spite, she harried thieves in the dead of night.
Put her son and his child to flight, they slew the babe, they slew his knight.
Through ill fate, he'd survived, but with this, his loves had died,
And now alone he must endure the days without child and paramour.

A man wakes up and hears strange noises downstairs. When he goes downstairs, he finds two strange men drinking his wine. They invite him to join in, leading to strange consequences.