Stories

A novel in twelve chapters.

It’s springtime in the Italian mountain town of Ravello, and the community is just starting to wake up for the new tourist season. But something isn’t quite right: businesses are being attacked, and the police are nowhere to be seen.

Into the midst of all this comes twelve-year-old Daniele Ferrero, a kind and gentle boy who dreams of being a hero but really just wants a friend his own age. One night, when he follows a boy he sort of likes, he gets caught up in a dangerous game that will test his faith in humanity.

Daniel literally sweeps Josh off his feet. They fall in love. Josh's parents are devout Christians and are not happy about it. The arrange a surprise for Daniel which ends up tearing them all apart.

Shy, introverted Geoff finds himself agreeing to meet one of his online friends - Adam - when he accidently reveals he will be in the area over the weekend. Geoff is forced to meet his insecurites and memories of a painful past while trying to cope with his growing attraction for his new friend.

When you’re courting danger, it’s important to have allies you can trust. Especially if you’re caught in the act.

This story is part of Cia’s Forbidden Love Challenge.

Dandelion’s hopes were deceived. But Dandelion decides to move on with his life.

Buddy Ryder is sixteen years old.

“Escape the pain of life you know.” *

Hoping to escape the realities of the world in which they live, he and his best friend, Andre, have been dancing to Madonna’s ‘Vogue,’ since they were ten.

“Your dreams will open the door.” *

Buddy likes Kyle Caldwell, a boy who attends his school. However, they come from two different worlds that he fears will never come together. Will he be able to open the door and make his dreams come true?

* Vogue
Sung by Madonna
written by Madonna and Shep Pettibone

Jack Woolery's life was safe and secure. He was attending high school, and he had no intention of coming out to his parents or best friend, Jimmy. Then Tracy Craft moves in across the street and changes his plans. Tracy, a new student and an aspiring ballet dancer, is strong and confident. He challenges Jack to reevaluate his life. Can Jack become friends with an openly gay boy and yet maintain the secret life he trusts?

A dreamy evening... A dance...

Mark is a depressed bartender who moonlights as an assassin. He takes a job from the wrong people and ends up finding something that might make his life worth living, if he can hold on to it.

Rigby, impossibly innocent, swaps suffocating middle-class New Zealand for love and liberation in nineteen-sixties London. Revelling in the freedom granted by anonymity, he becomes an actor, stripper, rent boy, teacher and resolute seeker of new experiences while living and travelling in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, when travellers were uncommon.

{A year ago I posted several chapters, then stopped because I needed to make a few changes. Apologies to those who began reading, only to have it rudely terminated.

Spelling throughout is English English.}

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