Stories

Card Tales was written to a challenge to help me get over my writer's block. It is a series of interwoven tales with a single main character, Cardanniel, who gets into a bunch of trouble. At the top of each tale will be a list of required elements. These were part of the challenge. Please note there are continuity errors, and I am aware of them.

Responses to AC Benus' Zero to Hero: a Guide / Forty step-by-step do-it-yourself prompts.

Marc Jesmond's a single guy nearing 40. He's a shy, unfocused sort of man, meaning nobody any harm, but he's about to undergo the most challenging time of his life, leaving him depressed, suicidal, then mad. and I mean angry-mad. Just how will he cope?

Sick of the long drawn out dispute, Hamysh T Lloyd recruits his grandson, to lead a project that will hopefully put a stop to the dispute and bring harmony to the region once more. The problem is, that the project requires the authorisation of six sperate nations as well as the UN's International Court of Justice. The name of the Project is; Bermuda Triangle Project, thought of by a passing comment made during the planning of the project.

Triston works to hard, plays to little and doesn't really think love is a thing anymore. Cory is more or less the guardian angel to his best friend to make sure he stays out of as much trouble as possible. When a chance meeting brings these two together will this be the new path to love or ruin

The Squire’s Tale is the final episode in Tales Along the Way, a trilogy of stories told by three business men traveling together on a long-haul flight. As the title suggests, this is a tale about a young gay man who is drawn into a dangerous adventure and an international intrigue. This is a admittedly a complex story, with 25 scenes spread over nine chapters. The story moves between two continents, such that simultaneous events have to be described more than once from different points of view. There is also a flashback chapter, which is clearly identified. I hope I have made it clear enough where and when each scene takes place.

Taking advantage of the power vacuum created by the collapse of the Soviet Union, underworld figures made a grab for legitimate businesses. However, the emerging Russian Mafia was not satisfied with those enterprises and extended their tendrils to embrace other ventures. Drugs, kiddie porn, prostitution, and slavery operations flourished until they tangled with the wrong beings.

In this third and final book in the Wearing Green On Thursday series, Bruce Hutton has graduated from college and is on his way to a new career in the aerospace industry outside Seattle. He leaves behind his several lovers, especially Detective Winston Buchanan, who was killed on duty and left Bruce bereft. Will Bruce mature in this new phase of his life, or will he childishly pursue casual sex without caring or loving?

The protagonist, a centuries old vampire tells us of his death and rebirth into darkness at the age of 17, deals with trying to remember several years of his life that are blocked from his memory as well as coming to grips with his vampiric lineage. ~Where you end up in life is not so important as how you got there~

A couple of online friends have a falling-out; one of them caves and makes a drastic decision.