Stories

Death has a busy schedule. Harbingers are the ones that track the experience and death of each passing. One such harbinger has a new trainee... it's not going well.

A day in the life of John, a student at Graydon College.

Three kids. A spooky old house. Halloween. They should have paid more attention to those horror movies.

Jesse and Marty are getting to know each other, and their new world together. Neither have ever had a friend quite like the other. It's a voyage of exploration, and both of them are having fun along the way. Fun, and other stuff. Sometimes the other stuff is what it's all about.

This short story collection is embracing all the cruelty and beauty of the world around us, highlighting the small details of the development of our feelings and emotions. Sometimes what doesn't kill you makes you scarred for a lifetime, sometimes it is really hard to realize how much you hurt other people, and sometimes you don't realize how much they hurt you. You need a lot of courage and fear to be able to commit suicide, but even to be able to stay alive.

This is the story of an older gay man who picks up a cute, young, straight hitchhiker. Over a few days they become very close, emotionally.

A couple of poems about uncovering the frontier of the world wide web.

Sammy and David are on a nice leisurely date, but with a policeman on the prowl and Sammy's anxiety problems being a bit prominent, the date is destined to take a turn for the worse.

Henry and his older brother William have suffered many years of abuse. They have been given a chance to leave there past behind and create a new life for themselves, but they have a dark secret that could cost them their second chance. How long can they keep this secret hidden before it starts hurting the people they care about.

Tony always admired his older brother, Vince, but it turned into more as they grew older. Other than a brief experimentation when they were younger, nothing happened between them, until Vince came home from college. Then the sparks began to fly.