Stories

A series of flash fiction chapters which tell their own individual story, "James, Don't Falter" overall explores the innermost feelings of a young man and his struggle to hang on to the guy he loves for more than a few moments.

Maximillian Lucente is the teenage leader of the Consortium, the only surviving connection of the human race to the Races of the Myths, the denizens of Otherworld hidden from the eyes of Ourworlders. On his seventeenth birthday, on the day of his Assumption, he finds his sister kidnapped, his vampire tutor gone and presumed dead, and his world and his leadership crumbling around him. Rumors of war and dissension abound, sealed by the Faerie Queen’s open aggression.

Six members of the world's recently-endangered human population attempt to build a personal utopia in the ruins of an apartment building and a night club, but all of the booze, drugs, and dancing in the world can't indefinitely fend off the monsters in the streets, or quell the dangers of their own turbulent relationships.

A young man wakes to find himself in a life that defies everything he ever deemed possible...
Is he able to leave his old life behind and accept his new life in a world that makes little sense and offers to break him at every turn?

A short poem for 12/21/2012 and the end of an era, somewhat critical of modern people and religion.

Bean and Ant meet online and become close. They even fall in love, but never expect to meet, until another friend makes it possible. Even though it isn't for long, they make every minute count.

“We are not free. And the sky can still fall on our heads” – Antonin Artaud

Originally written for The Mentor Program – Fall Writing Project.

Prompts using the same cast of characters to form one story

A short story, a try-out if you must.

Michael’s partner of nine years cheated on him a couple months ago and, although he forgave Jerry, Michael is desperate to love Jerry again, even though there is a big hole in his heart.