Stories

Shunned since he came out, Zach finds a way to get even with the one behind his misery, helping the other gay freshmen of Carmel in the process. (October, 2009)

This is the 23rd story in the Naptown Tales series, whcih can also be found at Awesome Dude and Nifty. Please see the Introduction for important background on the series.

A tragic study of what happens when a person is consumed by past love; of what happens when the seduction of self-destructive nostalgia takes over.

Sometimes a stranger impacts us more than we could ever imagine.

How two guys can have a kid? Follow the event following the announcement of a pregnancy between a couple and their friend. This is what you get after having asked a teen to write a text, keeping in mind the Theatre of the Absurd, in high school.

A classic love story, with all the elements of teenage lust, hormones, angst, and heartbreak everyone experiences. Josh and Wyatt struggle to scratch out a safehaven of happiness under pressure to just be normal boys.

Dmitri moved on with his life, he met someone new, he was more or less happy... and then his ex came crashing back into his life, with the son he once thought of as his own and a drug lord hot on his trail.

Now Dmitri is charged with the care of a five year old boy, has to evade gangsters, dirty cops, clean cops, and nosey neighbors all the while trying to keep his relationship with his lover together as he unveils webs of lies and conspiracies.

A young man, fed up with his abusive parents and fearing they would have him shipped to an offshore torture facility leaves home to start his life elsewhere, only to get caught up in events well beyond his control.

Why couldn’t Chase just embrace the events that occurred between him and Xander and let that be it? Why did he have to analyze every damn thing?

We all have regrets in our pasts, we've all made mistakes. Sometimes they haunt us. What if we were truly able to change those mistakes?

Debbie and Cathy have been in the closet for more than four years, and have less than one more to go to be free of their fundamentalist parents, but a year is still a very long time. (January, 2009)

This is the 17th story in the Naptown Tales series, which can also be found at Awesome Dude and Nifty. Please see the Introduction for important background on the series.