Stories

This is the first part of a multi-part story of two 14 year old boys searching for their sexual identity as they tie knots in their lives. It documents the challenges their friendship faces as the boys move through their freshman year in high school. Each part of the series covers a year of the boys' high school life until they graduate from high school.

A midsummer festival in the middle of winter, a warm tropical Australian night, and a forced acquaintance with a stranger.

Rick had set a deadline on himself. He was set on coming out to his family and his bestfriend. Grasping what little courage he could muster, he stutters out the dreaded words... "I'm gay."

A boy running away from a life of comfort in a search for acceptance. A young man struggling with loneliness in a small town. Fate had woven their threads into a tapestry of laughter and tears. And love will blossom on what started as a chance encounter... on a park bench.

I AM SORRY BUT THIS STORY WILL BE PUT ON HOLD FOR A WHILE. :

Snippets of my family life from 2005 to 2010

While the following stories are basically true, allowing for a moderate degree of poetic license, all the names have been changed to protect the guilty.

Oh, okay. Allow for a large degree of poetic license.

A boy who doesn't believe in Christmas wishes to see snow. He follows his strange idea and goes after the light, only to fall into a strange situation.

Sam Baker had three ambitions. He wanted to get through his last year of school with good grades. He needed to keep his head down, so as not to be the focus of the school bullies. And finally he wanted to be free from school, and free from Dane o’Hanlon.
Not that Dane even knew that Sam had the biggest crush on him, in fact Dane barely knew of Sam’s existence.

Benjamin Connor’s rise to fame hardly surprised anyone, not even himself. He thrives in the spotlight and enjoys his work as an actor, but his world is turned topsy-turvy when he meets Mark, an unknown musician from Camden. As their relationship blossoms, Ben must decide whether to face the bigotry of Hollywood or keep his odd, interesting, gorgeous little punk a secret for the sake of his career. And for how long can such a high-profile individual keep a secret anyway?

Daniel is haunted by his first ever kiss. He couldn't fathom though how this could possibly happen as he's never been kissed before. But for awhile he had this dream of what could have been and he hasn't had that dream for years until now.

It’s never easy being the new kid at school, but there are secrets at Shepherd’s Crook and nothing is as it seems.