Stories

This is where I stash my short stories responses to writing prompts. Hope you enjoy. If you like stuff like The Twilight Zone, Outer Limits or Night Gallery you will probably feel right at home.

Death is better left undisturbed, but some people don't know any better. After the death of his best friend, Ethan, Caleb Neild ventures into The Underworld to seek Ethan's soul and bring him back to the world of the living. He requests the help of the mythical Orpheus, bard turned psychopomp, to find The One Who Rules Beneath and must cross the dreaded six rivers of the afterlife.

A lonely, older man has spent his life hiding his sexuality. One day, by chance, this changes. Then a young man arrives to help him widen his horizons, as he slowly comes to terms with life as a gay man.

My grandmother made me talk to Diarmad Guerin every year after Christmas Mass since I was three. The letter he gave me a few weeks before my eighteenth birthday changed my whole world.

After attending the local Pride, will Eric Whitehouse reconnect with his old workmate, Rob? What might it mean to both men if he does?

While house sitting Jerry has a drunk boy wander over from the party next door - and it changes everything.

When asked for help by his alpha, Brandon Holstrom stepped forward to heed the call. Even though it would mean leaving behind everyone he knew and walk into the unknown of a foreign country, he still agreed. Part of a rare breed who run towards a fire instead of away. Based on the media reports he'd seen, Brandon could only guess what awaits him on the other side of the Pacific Ocean.

It's tough being Clayton Edward Hamilton III. First, there's the name...could it be any more pretentious?

Then he's pretty sure he's gay. He doesn't know for certain, but he's feeling it.

On top of that, he's a preacher's kid. Not just any preacher's kid. His dad is pastor of a huge mega-church in Charlotte, NC.

This is the story of Eddie's journey of self-discovery...a journey he takes with his best friend and neighbor, Matthew Jordan.

Craig and Jared, former brothers-in-law, have been tormented in different ways, and lines have been crossed. Can they now find a way to make sense out of a challenging family situation?

My thoughts, happy things, nice poems, just positive stuff allowed