Stories

The journey of a man to find a special person

Jordan Baxter grew up as an orphan. Kennie Hardy is part of a very generous, and civic minded wealthy family. Kennie, and Jordan's paths cross unknowingly with various charity events, and on the day of the city's Christmas Parade, Kennie, his friends, and family create an intricate plot as an exciting, and creative way for young Mr. Hardy to ask his favorite orphaned volunteer to be his boyfriend.

A young man doesn't live up to his father's expectation.

This story continues a few months after we left Nat and Marc in Double Down, now told from Nat's point of view. He's a private eye with a busy business, one at times boring. This newest case though...

Chris and Luke were in love. Their families were as close as two families could be and they were all delighted about the fact that they were drawn even closer by that love. Even when they went to different universities they stayed as close as ever. They thought they were going to be together forever. Their families thought they woud be together forever. Their friends thought they were going to be together forever. But sometimes life can be a bitch.

A lot can occur in a single day, and this day starts with Virgil Pruitt riding into a sad, struggling Texas town seven years after the end of the Mexican-American War. Sometimes it's not easy to be a good man, one who calls out unfair hate when he sees it, but Virgil doesn't always look for easy. Will he pay the price for being such a man, or will he be rewarded for standing up for young Wyatt Burnham?

Craig is a street kid. Kicked out of home at a young age, he does what he has to if he wants to survive, but when another street kid is beaten up, Craig wonders if it's all too much.

In a small Western Massachusetts former mill town, now part of a larger college circuit, people -- largely students -- keep getting approached.

They don't bring it on themselves -- or do they?

Police detective Elena Petrakis leads the investigation, while her standbys, Chief Owen Neland, Senior Detective Don Burris, Lt. Ike Omari, and Sgts. Jae Ryu and Rob Perez offer support.

The Waldron Police -- Owen, Ike, Elena, Don, Jae, and Rob -- are back, this time following a knife fight that started in a nursing home.

Life is full of random events; tragedy strikes where it will until random goodness displaces the ugliness. Neither event lasts, fades in our collective memories until the roulette wheel of life lands on the unlucky number of some town or city. We’ve become callused…numb…and disbelieving of events outside of our homes, neighborhood, and state. It simply happens somewhere else…until.