Stories

A little over a year after graduating from Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service, the State department posts CJ Abelló to the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City. CJ, his husband Owen Liston, and their daughter, Elizabeth Liston Abelló, immediately make themselves at home south of the Rio Grande.
Until disaster strikes and their lives are forever altered.

After attending the local Pride, will Eric Whitehouse reconnect with his old workmate, Rob? What might it mean to both men if he does?

Twenty-nine-year-old Sam Miller owns a duplex on the beach and lives there with his fourteen-year-old son, Devon (Devie). He rents out the other half to thirty-five-year-old Taylor Winters and his fourteen-year-old son, Cillian (Cillie). The dads share an attraction to one another, and their kids have an attraction for each other. The two sets of couples decide to explore becoming a family while Taylor, and Sam date, and Cillian, and Devon date.

Charlotte lives with her neko girl in the shadow of a foster father she hates, but rarely sees any more. Life is peaceful since she moved out of her foster home, and taking in a new rescue catboy to nurture seems a logical expansion of her little family.

Finn, her foster brother, runs afoul of his father for the same reason Charlotte had - being caught in a compromising position with a member of the same sex. All he really wants is space to figure himself out, and act just like the neko he adores.

Zack is struggling to make friends. The only person who appeals is Finn, who for some reason resists every overture of friendship...

A midlife single university teacher in ornithology feels deeply unhappy with his life so far and starts pondering what made it that way. But although he is able to find part of the answers, he doesn’t have the courage to change it. When he is sent on a field research job in Alaska, the total change in environment brings him this courage and he enjoys the new-found freedom with the help of an extraordinary guide.

Nick is a bisexual man who is enjoying a 'friends with benefits' situation with a Jenny, but when she gets him to help her and her younger brother move out of the house for the very first time to go to college, they take a road trip that has him experiencing feelings that he was never able to act on before. Her brother, Maddox, is beautiful, both inside and out...and may be hiding a few secrets of his very own!

This will be a collection for most of my poetry. Hope you'll find it appealing. Some of it will be Mature, so pay attention to the chapter notes.

Growing up happens differently for everyone. Finding yourself takes time, and for some of us it's not an easy process. Sometimes it can happen fast, all too fast. Sometimes we let parts of ourselves stray behind. Sometimes things must get worse before they can get better. Sometimes much, much worse. But these are the things that define us. That much, at least, St. John Allerdyce knows. But it's one thing to know something and another to live through it.

The Knight's Tale is the story of Lord Henry Sandringham, a gay British nobleman who is secretly an agent for MI6. He is sent to Tehran to rescue the son of the Foreign Minister, who faces the death penalty for being gay. Using a secret new drug called SOMNOS, the agent is assigned to conduct the young man to safety over the Alborz Mountains, across the Caspian Sea, and back to Britain.

DEDICATION
To Jeff, my first love - where are you today?