Stories

Jiovanni Ward's world is falling apart. First, his father is murdered. Then, his mother develops a brain tumor that is slowly killing her, and while she lays dying, his blood begins to burn. Sworn by his father to seek out the guild no sooner than his sixteenth birthday and pressured by his mother to not seek it out at all, Jiovanni must deal with the growing pressures within himself and within his family...see the prologue for more detail.

It's the digital age, where people can order groceries, they can order drinks, and dating is done through an app, and its all done from their mobile phone. What if the impressions we left with people online had a real world consequences. A killer is using a dating app as his murder list. Anyone that ignores or treats him “wrong” is a target. Will Enzo be his next victim?

Allen finds it hard to trust after a horrible experience that lurks in the past. He tries to move forward with his life but he soon realizes that you need to be honest and trust that people can handle the truth. He holds a secret that could destroy not just him but a friendship he holds more dear than life itself. Can he gather enough courage and tell his best friend that hes gay or will he stay in the closet for life.

Wild Heart is the sequel to The List, which features the universe realized by Cynus with his stories Fearless and Weightless. Wild Heart continues to follow Shane and Parker as well as Travis.

A lonely, older man has spent his life hiding his sexuality. One day, by chance, this changes. Then a young man arrives to help him widen his horizons, as he slowly comes to terms with life as a gay man.

I tried some of the writing prompts

Jack works at a law firm, and his husband Arty stays at home. After a recent death in the family, the two decide it's time to adopt another child. Daniel Scott, from the great, hilly capital of Edinburgh. They just didn't anticipate him to be so perfect. Or so deceiving. Do you ever know who you're really letting into your home?

[Explicit sexual content, character death, obsession]

Ian is the last boy at 319 Winesap Lane and he doesn't have any adults interested in fostering him. In an act of desperation, he uses a very sharp chef's knife to make the ultimate cut.

Short stories from prompts and my own head.

14-year-old Aiden Desmond is used to knowing things others don't. He knows about things from books his friends don’t read, things on tests in higher grades, things that happen that adults don’t talk about, and about bad days on a person's personal calendar, days when things happened, that divided their life into "Before" and "After."

But that didn’t prepare him for things like this. Two secrets, two radical shifts in what he knew. Aiden is used to knowing things others don't, but to get used to these things, he needs answers.