Stories

A response to Valkyrie's Guest Prompt #2 a short story of at least 500 words in first person without using the pronoun 'I'

Storms, vicious ones, are not always created by nature. This poem is about a different kind of devastation.

Ben & Jake have set off to meet George at the Natural History Museum in London. How does that turn out?

Keith doesn't know how he ended up fucking champion hoverbike racer Takashi Shirogane in a closet... but he's determined to make the most of it.

Prompt responses and Short Scene/Stories that won't leave my head alone.

Gavin and Danny Berger are a married couple and want to either foster or adopt a child. When a toddler named Eric is brought to their house to meet them, they instantly fall in love with him. It starts out with them being Foster parents, but eventually they’re able to adopt him. His parents relinquish their parental rights because they’re in prison and he’d be a grown man by the time they got out. It didn’t take long for Gavin, Danny, and Eric to form a very loving family relationship.

In the South, ice storms are rare and messy. It's possible to lose power and heat for days at a time.

They are also a great excuse for parties, if you've got power and heat.

This story is inspired by a big ice storm that hit Memphis, Germantown and Collierville some years ago.

Simba and family and all of his friends travel to Tanzania to spend Christmas at the family home at the foot of Mt Kilimanjaro, and from there, a new adventure begins.

No excuses! This is an unabashed, sentimental tale, about a true Christmas miracle. Two young men find each other at Christmas time, despite the incredible odds. One of them saves the other’s life through divine intervention.

Born with hereditary spastic paraparesis, Simon had spent most of his life in a wheelchair, unable to walk and barely able to use his hands. To his parents, home schooling had seemed to be the only way for Simon to get an education; yet Simon was smart and yearned to be another Stephen Hawking - not to live with his parents until they became to infirm to care for him. He decided to take a chance on applying to the Bronx High School of Science, one of the best public secondary schools in the world. Going to a public high school would be scary, but there'd be new opportunities to live life, and to love.