Stories

SHORT STORY. 2006 Fall Anthology. Halloween trick or treating leads to a romance.

Gerard has agreed to help out a friend, and do one thing that he would never normally do, join a frat. The initiation consists of spending the night in a haunted house. He knows this house well, and the ghosts within. Sometimes bad things happen, but sometimes, awful things fix themselves.

The lens of the camera is shallow. It sees colour and shape. It gives the illusion of motion in two dimensions. It draws the light from the dark. In that space between lens and subject, between picture and reality, lies solitude.

Jonah lived in that solitude, content within its embrace.

Until Michael.

: Help comes in many forms. In desperation, indulgence becomes an option. But this is a double-edged sword. The Cooper couple knew what they were putting themselves into when they hired a male hustler one night to play with. They just didn't know the extent of its effectts it will have on their marriage.

Cyan is afriad of boys, especially beautiful boys. When he met the beautiful boy on the bus he really shouldn't have looked and when he bumped into him in the club he should have walked away

Tyler was hot, nice and funny but had the worse luck with girls. Mark is the care free artist who is both Tyler's roommate and dying for Tyler's attention. It's just too bad that Tyler is too clueless to notice and then his kid shows up... what!?

This is a story of good intentions and how they don't always work out happily.

The thing about monsters, is that not all of them appear as monsters. Some come in the form of Prince Charming.

Luke is on the run. In his past there is a man…a man willing to do anything and everything to find him and control his life once again. And as the Deputy Director of Interpol, he has all the resources to make it happen. Luke has succeeded in escaping him for a few years, but his luck runs out when he settles in Spain for too long, after falling in love with a handsome local. When his cover is blown, Luke wants to disappear once again, but he knows he can’t run forever.

A mother becomes obsessed after the death of her only son

Nat lost touch with former friend and lover Grant after they finished university. He knows from Facebook that Grant inherited a farm in the country and married the 'Lord of the Manor'. So why has he received an invitation to a mysterious local event in aid of the recent flooding? Could there be trouble in paradise?