Stories

Like the namesake movie released in 2000, which is set in LA, What's Cooking (in NYC) explores the lives of four families as they make preparations for the Thanksgiving holiday. As with the movie, there is much unexpected drama, but with the added wrinkle that all four families, who are well-known to NYC Holidays readers, are waiting for loved ones to arrive on the same flight from California. When a glitch in Air Traffic Control occurs, anything can happen.

Young Wesley has spent his life trying to be a decent boy. Always holding back, always trying to make the right decision. But when a young group of delinquents step into his life, they begin to free him from what he knew as being right and wrong. However, these other teens are a lot more than what they seem. Beware the full moon, the new moon, and every dark hour in between!

Seth Moore grew up on New York’s Lower East side, the son of a New York State assemblyman. He loved his dad and admired his dedication, but then his dad was arrested on federal charges of corruption. It couldn’t be! When the Feds moved against his boyfriend’s family and seized their restaurants, their only means of support, something had to be done. Would Seth’s dad cop a plea to insider trading and go prison for a crime he didn’t commit, all for the sake of his son and the boy he loved?

Shiro buys himself a present he is too scared to use, but it'll be OK, because Keith is there to help him

It's Connor's birthday today, and his sister, Karen, has been super excited about his big party at a local pizza and amusement place in town! Mostly because Connor's best friend is sure to be joining the festivities, and she's looking to finally tell her big crush how she feels about him. Will it be good news for her, or bad news? Good news for Connor...or bad news? Join the party and find out!

Jeremy has convinced himself that he is madly in love with one of the most incredible boys in his entire high school. Beautiful, popular...and totally not interested in Jeremy. While he longs for Steven, day and night, he just can't seem to figure out what he's doing wrong. And yet, his heart can't seem to let him go and move on. What is it that Steven seems to dislike so much about him? And should he keep trying to build a bridge between them, or is poor Jeremy just wasting his time?

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Douglas is one of Lysander's crushers and finds himself and his siblings at risk from a strange new enemy.

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

The Moresby Collective Association controls life for Terrans living on Moresby’s Planet in the Andromeda galaxy. Twenty-one teens are running away from Village 31K2.6 because of unspoken horrors afflicting young people. There goal is the land on the other side of the Great Western Sea where legend says they will live free for the rest of their lives. Chasing them are thirty-one adults who will kill every teen, except for their leader Edgar Christiansson. He will be returned to the village to be executed in a way only humans can imagine.

It was a very restless time for the boys in New York City. Forced indoors by the pandemic, the school year was coming to a close in name only, as much felt left undone in the paradigm of remote learning. Then on Memorial Day, a black man in Minneapolis was lynched by a white police officer who strangled the man with his knee, touching off a firestorm of pent-up rage. Naturally the boys had to get involved in the protests. They had to, but then one of their own fell victim to police use of excessive force