Stories

My response to prompt 439. 'Use the following in a story – a clown, a motorcycle, vacation tickets, chocolate cake, and a ring.'

I found an old poem that I wrote when I was a teenager. My family and I weren't getting along. I was having a really hard time at that point in my life.

A hopefully growing collection of my own poetry

After an accident that leaves his boyfriend incapacitated, Conner is left to try and pick up the pieces and move forward with his life. But moving on is easier said than done as long as Justin's still breathing, and Conner's made a promise not to leave him. With so much of himself wrapped up in a boy that isn't really there anymore, Conner isn't sure he can handle dealing with life in general and starting new relationships, or even hang onto old ones without losing his mind.

A teenager tries to figure out how to deal with his family issues and conservative small-town thinking.

In this fantasy realm, just outside of the Kingdom of Solomon, a growing boy named Orrin finds himself restless to explore the world around him. However, after stumbling into a dangerous situation, and falling for one of the most beautiful boy's that he's ever laid eyes upon...Orrin's sense of adventure may end up leading him much further than anything he's ready for. Even to the mythical Plateau...the realm of the dead.

Young Benji is going to finally have the house to himself during a day off from school. With his mom and dad going to work, and his baby sister spending the day with friends...he's free to get into whatever mischief that he wants to pursue. What will he do with his much needed time alone?

A short story from the November issue of Imagine Magazine! Enjoy!

All Hopes Insane Asylum for the Mentally Ill, An old decrepit hospital for the Mentally unsound. It is here where the beginning of our story ends...

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Dr. Margaret Penner, a veteran doctor who's sanity is put to the test when seven new arrivals resurrect demons from her past. The only major problem is if these demons are only in her nightmares and imagination, why can her patients see them too?

Shawn Cotlin's life takes an unexpected turn when his eyes fall on a boy named Devin. From that moment on, he knows nothing will ever be the same again as love, hate, and need takes their tolls. As Shawn struggles to find himself, consequences and challenges are thrown into his face. He realizes he must pull down the stakes before they grow too high, or risk losing everything he ever was, and ever will be.

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When Gerard is eight, he starts getting hurt without getting injured, and it doesn't take long for him to realise that he's experiencing someone else's pain. But when Gerard falls from his bike and ends up losing his foot, he dreams of flying through the countryside on a big red horse, and his whole life becomes about the desire to feel just as complete as he does when he's asleep.