Stories

Basil goes a little...overboard with Halloween enthusiasm. For Cia's Extreme Halloween challenge.

One Poem

5.19.11

Jack is a young adult who recently graduated from college, jobless. Focusing on his previous failures in his lifetime, he begins to reevaluate his choices in life, desperately hoping for a better future.

A gay re-imagining of "Notre Dame de Paris", set off-world in a post-apocalyptic future. A tale of love and inner beauty.

Translations of early German Expressionist poet Toni Schwabe. Along with Elsa Gidlow and Renée Vivien, her delicate-but-frank explorations of same-sex love established much of the territory fellow Lesbian poets celebrated vociferously in the latter part of the 20th century. As far as I know, this is the first substantial collection of the poet's work to be rendered in English.

All artwork posted with the poems are by noted Gay/Bi American artist Georgia O’Keeffe

Two boys, best friends, about as opposite as opposite can be, hold onto their love for each other as they age toward the exit door we all seek.

Liebe, a young girl living in the Florida Keys with her two fathers, is invited to watch sea turtles come ashore to lay eggs. When one appears to be in trouble because of plastic waste, their friend Jo comes to the rescue. A few weeks later, Liebe’s delighted as countless hatchlings race across the sand to the ocean.

A 15 year old dancer named Brian has had a ruff life and considers himself worthless. That is until he meets Jonathan who forces him to confront his past, deepest fears, and self loathing. Jonathan is there for him every step of the way, through all his break downs and trial and tribulations.

John Williams cant remember his life before he wrote a novel based on it. Can he regain all that he has lost by reading his novel?

Graduation is a bitter sweet time as some prepare to leave for college, but excitement reigns as everyone plans to attend Randy & Altaf’s wedding. (2009 Summer Anthology - Carpe Diem)This is the 20th story in the Naptown Tales series, which can also be found at Awesome Dude and Nifty. Please see the Introduction for important background on the series.