Stories

It's been said that suffering builds character. And there are few that know suffering better than young Justin. Only 14 years old, he has found an easy way out. A suicidal tendency that he is hoping will bring an end to his misery. But when he meets a mysterious boy at the end of Navy Pier one dark evening...he is given an alternative. One that will give him purpose, and set in motion the events that will lead to his ultimate destiny....in a world not like our own.

Halloween. A night for trick or treating. A night for fun and parties. A night for the creatures of the dark to come out and play. A night for romance? Meet Alexander, a half wood sprite out for a little fun, not expecting a vampire named Antonin to take an interest in him. Watch their journy through lust, love, tragedy and both of their pasts as they work together towards their happiness as consort and mate.

(Will never be finished due to Morena's untimely death. -- Rose/S.L. Lewis)

Once Andrew started high school, he found himself suddenly surrounded by cute boys that he never even knew existed. One of them, Christopher Margo, has become his obsession. But, even though he's too shy to talk to Chris in real life, Andrew lets his fantasies go wild when he sits down at his laptop and writes fanfics about himself and the boy of his dreams.

Jordan Bricks has just been involved in a serious accident. Pulled from the wreckage and rushed to the hospital...he was clinically dead...for six minutes. After being revived by doctors, Jordan is thankful to be alive. But it appears that death has not relinquished its hold on him just yet. Are they illusions, these horrible things he sees lurking in the shadows? Or is the truth about what happens to us after we die...more terrifying than we ever could have imagined?

When Donnie takes it upon himself to experiment with 'lucid dreaming'...his high school friends take it all with a grain of salt. But...when it appears that he's tapped into a world beyond dreams, where he meets a boy who may or may not be a ghost of this current reality, Donnie must fight to break away from what he thought was a fictional relationship...with an evil he wasn't prepared to deal with.

My responses to various prompts

Thiago Zeca Baravento, the son of an American woman and a first generation Brazilian father, rises above the expectations of many for a black man born and raised in the predominantly minority Washington, D.C. neighborhood of Anacostia. After graduating from Howard University with a doctorate in pharmacology, and looking to provide his son Fabricio with a good life, Thiago leaves the District of Columbia, promising to one day return to his hometown.

Kevin has a mission... he wants to see what other 15 and 16 year olds in his class are also gay. He experiments to determine.

Cameron MacKenzie and Kevin Stolz had been best friends and almost brothers their entire life. When a series of bad things happens to their families, the boys find themselves getting closer than they ever considered before.