Stories

14-year-old Aiden Desmond is used to knowing things others don't. He knows about things from books his friends don’t read, things on tests in higher grades, things that happen that adults don’t talk about, and about bad days on a person's personal calendar, days when things happened, that divided their life into "Before" and "After."

But that didn’t prepare him for things like this. Two secrets, two radical shifts in what he knew. Aiden is used to knowing things others don't, but to get used to these things, he needs answers.

Simon has been beaten down all his life. Finally he has had enough. Determined to take his life, he tries to drown himself. When he is saved by a young man, he begins to learn his life might have a happy ending after all. But no one ever promised life would be easy even with help.

Three triplet Princes come of age after being fostered out to three other Royal Families when the Zyrian sorcerer Kai overthrew the Alaeyan Royal Family and seized control. Now, the greedy monarchs simultaneously seek to use the claim of their adopted Prince to merge their country with Alaeyas and war across the whole continent is inevitable. In a world where Humans are born with Familiars, lifelong companions until death, the three Princes discover their gift - they can communicate through each other's Pegasi. Will Ytia drown in blood of Human and Familiar alike, or can the Princes save them?

The year is 1987, and an aging Tokyo crime boss with a shady past has called on a very old friend for help with what he believes to be a dire situation. There is only one hope for the future in his mind, and the sharing of this secret comes at a heavy price. But is he preventing an apocalyptic clash between the humans who walk in daylight and the vampires who live in darkness? Or is he igniting a conflict that will ultimately end in the anihilation of both? Can this close vampire contact from his past save that which he values most?

How far would you go for the person you love? Does love exist beyond time, life and death? Is love very complicated? Is love easy? Is love good? Or it sucks? What do you think?

This story was written as an addition to the Sanitaria Springs series of stories. Those are stories written by Dabeagle and other authors who he invited to contribute. They are about events in the lives of several teen boys who live in the fictional town of Sanitaria Springs in New York State. The stories are interwoven and this particular story picks up on a character first met in a story titled 'Without A Trace.'

I do not think it is essential to read that story before reading this tale as I believe there is sufficient 'back story' here to enable this one to stand alone, but feel free to do so.

In the future, three boys move to a new town to start new lives. Taxon, Hunter and Elijah find themselves in a new home with a whole new adventure.

James Esposito grew up projects in Brooklyn in the 1980's. His whole life being haunted by his fear of turning into his abusive alcoholic father. While has parents come in and out of his life, he finds guidance in his English teacher who his helps explore his love for writing and to come to terms with his sexuality, discovering that he is falling madly in love with his best friend. James battles himself and his close-minded environment to come out and find who he truly is.

When young Skyler first approached a strange boy one night who was sitting by a running river and a small campfire, it was because of a sudden infatuation that he couldn't quite explain. Out in the woods, in the middle of nowhere, the two boys decide to spend some quiet time together. But it appears this stranger in the dark may just claim to be more than what Skyler was expecting...

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