Stories

17 year old Justin Grant goes to sleep in a park in 2011 and wakes up in 1880. The freak time travel makes him want to return home, even though his father is abusive. When he does manage to return, he starts to figure out how to control the traveling. The 1880s become his safe place from his father, and introduces him to sexual feelings for another boy.

Last New Year's Eve, Jack spent an amazing night with a stranger. He didn't even know her name. Can he marshal the nerve to ask her out this year?

Michael Quinn is your typical seventeen year old throwaway making his own way on the streets of Black Moon Bay until a chance encounter with a stranger changes his life forever and throws him into a chaotic underworld that has only been hinted at in myths and legends whispered among the inhabitants of the city.

Dexter is new to the school as a senior. The social groups are liberal, and he makes friends with a few football players, Sam and Kelly, and some other oddballs. Friendship turns into relationships.

A poem for the Legends Anthology, Fall 2011.

Three centuries ago, during the Time of Original Sin, Oblivion and his six Daemon ruled Gaia in total darkness. Only through the sacrifice of the Heroes of Howllight did Gaia came to its new Golden Age. Now the new age is being threatened again for the Six Seals of Oblivion are slowly being broken.

A freak attack forces Xander's family to relocate from their home in Ohio to Vermont. Once there, he runs into Bates, not the nicest guy on the block. Unbeknownst to the 13 year-old, Xander becomes Bates's primary target.

Tucker had been on the road for days, looking for something he couldn't name, though leaving his home and his 'family' was the hardest thing he'd ever done. When he gives in to a strange urge to enter a bar in a town where no one knows him, he finds that things in his life were never really quite what they seemed.

Orange Grove is a resting place or a quick stop: nothing of significance ever happens in Orange Grove.

Sharing no common interest or having utterly disparate lifestyles did not stop them from falling in love. However the grand challenge for Sam and Shawn was never about discovering their love for each other but on learning how to remain together. Can a tinge of chemistry more than make up for the complete lack of compatibility? [Part of 'Tales of Love, Tales of Woe' short story collection]