Stories

Soulmate, noun, a person with whom one has a strong affinity, shared values and tastes, and often a romantic bond.
Most people search their entire lives for theirs. Alex and Jeremy found theirs before they even knew what love and commitment is all about.

Can life start again after losing the person you expected to be your partner for life?

Haiku from walks taken this Autumn along the trails in the woods.

Life has been very hard for me these past few months, with the Covid Virus quickly spreading around the world, which had resulted in the shutting down of a lot of businesses due to quarantine restrictions, and which resulted in me loosing me job and soon after my rental home of the past four years. Although I was single, gay and have no close family, with my parents killed in a train crash while on holidays when I was seventeen, and my two older siblings, Melissa and Trenton, not wanting to know me because of my sexuality, but I had managed to complete my high school education with high grades.

This was written as part of a Day of Silence show of support sponsored by Dreamspinner Press and its young adult publishing arm, Harmony Ink. It features Jay and Lethe from (Un)Masked.

An article discussing how using Role-Playing Games to help craft better stories.

I am told this is a "Haibun" or "Quick Writing," as it is translated. It is a partial narrative, and partial poetic treatment of a very difficult journey I am even now completing.

Against his expectations, Tligg Winterbaum has a surprisingly good time when he ‘volunteers’ for the Christmas preparations at the annual Great Project.

Two poems about one of life's constants. The first one was written on Mother's Day Eve.

Caught unaware what was about to happen, Jacob is kidnapped right outside his hotel, just an hour after arriving in Cape Town, South Africa, in Transit to his family property at the base of Kilimanjaro, Tanzania.