Stories

A story created around Prompt 843 to include the following words:

a bloody shirt, a broken door, a school bag, a new book and a calico cat.

Life can seem like an entirely different experience when a global pandemic causes everyone to stay at home and out of harm's way. Especially for young Asher, who was just beginning to realize that he has a huge crush on his friend Caleb, and is longing to make contact with him. They stay in touch, but he's so out of reach. Gathering up the courage to tell his current infatuation how he feels, will Caleb accept his growing love for him...or will they become more distant than ever before?

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A new story following the lives of Dylan and Jesse from my 'Riding Lessons' series

Friggy and Jewl were street kids in a world that had been changed by momentous events. They survived by simply taking what they could get, working if work presented itself, and choosing other means if needed. If that sometimes meant a little basic thievery, well, that was a part of the world they lived in. It was a big city, and small crimes were tough to solve.

Until one day when they picked up something unexpected, something unique. And in so doing, set off a pursuit that would ultimately redefine their very existence.

A long short story, presented complete.

April is National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo), and the challenge is to write 30 poems (one per day) throughout the month. This year, I decided to do something a little different. Each day (or every other day, depending on my mood) I will write a 'postcard'--a short poem about my daily dealings with the COVID-19 pandemic. I will also write other poems as the mood (and daily prompts) strike me. I think it will be an interesting exercise to see how the poems change across the course of the month.

Tucked away in the southeast corner of Tennessee is a small town called Minor Springs.

Tristan is a bullied teen who spends his days (and nights) plotting his escape.

Finn has it all - popularity, money and the perfect girlfriend - but feels the town is closing in around him.

As Minor Springs threatens to destroy them both, they will find refuge in an abandoned clubhouse in the woods separating their two worlds.

Poems written for National Poetry Writing Month, April 2020. An assortment of mercifully short poems, I hope you will enjoy them at your leisure.

Kyle has recently started at university. His parents are affluent so he has his own flat and a car. With his new found freedom the social life available has more attraction than studying,

When Josh and his sisters move from the Brooklyn neighborhood of Manhattan Beach to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, he quickly befriends a group of gay kids that go to Stuyvesant High School, where he's a freshman. His youngest sister, Robin, forges her own relationships with fellow students at the Salk School for Science. In the meantime Freck's mother attempts to make amends. All look forward to the festivals of Passover and Easter, but then a global Pandemic forces a change of plans.

Aidan and Lorcan; brothers are young fosters trapped in their bedroom. During the wake of a heatwave in Ireland, they find themselves, bored. Yet, a downpour foils their plans for any fun outdoors. Tired and weary of sitting around the two siblings get to questioning what happened to their parents before they ended up in social care. Leading the two to work in cahoots on a hunt for information to find out the truth.