Stories

When pressure rose for Princess Lin to get married, she convinced her uncle, the King, to let her partner be someone who was at least as smart as she was. Therefore it was decided that she would marry the first man or woman to defeat her father in a chess match. Soon after that she met a wanderer with a remarkable disdain for royalty...

Chris is working at a summer camp where he meets Cody. Things progress from there.

Tim left New York ten years ago after a terrible accident stole a part of his life away. Now he has come home to face the family that wanted nothing to do with him, because his mother has passed away. Tim's life has come full circle and now he has to deal with the ghosts of his past so he can move on to his future.

2007 Anthology

Matt Brady can’t exactly talk to animals, but he has a sixth sense. He knows how they feel, and what they are thinking. He runs an animal shelter in a small town in Colorado.

Perhaps the highest form of romance entails not of two complete individuals coming together, but of two who would be completely, utterly and unequivocally broken without the other. Shawn had everything everybody else wanted, but struggled to attain the one thing that would potentially make him happy. Sam wanted nothing of what everybody else wanted, and as such had struggled to resist the one thing that might make him happy. [Part of 'Tales of Love, Tales of Woe' short story collection]

This is a coming out story that occurred in 1989.

Out of necessity, Armie accepts what his life has become, but when a handsome stranger issues an unexpected challenge, the walls he's so carefully constructed begin to weaken. Once the dust settles, will they crumble altogether?

Two mini-stories dealing with life problems you don't see in a high school setting.

A place between tedium and suburbia