Stories

Tucker had been on the road for days, looking for something he couldn't name, though leaving his home and his 'family' was the hardest thing he'd ever done. When he gives in to a strange urge to enter a bar in a town where no one knows him, he finds that things in his life were never really quite what they seemed.

Ryan starts college hoping to have lots of success with the ladies. Meeting his roommate, Andrew, changes everything.

Ten thousand years ago, the first permanent human settlements were established soon after an unusual astronomical occurrence. The same phenomenon occurred again fourteen years ago.

This story explores the impact of the meeting between a talented fifteen-year-old and a strange and exceptional boy.

Peter has always liked people who were "different."

Used, abused, Diablerized! Gamer boy Chris is at his wits end about what to do with his best friend Tony, who is never going to come out of his closet about their secret relationship. When Tony ends their game, Chris goes in search of another and gets far more than the LARPing he bargained for in a dark alley with Aran.

The story of Charles Lanier, a young gay guy who rents an apartment on Lake Shore Drive on the near north side of Chicago, and the unexpected adventures he encounters from the day he moves in.

Jerret lied to his best friend to get out of dressing up in a heinous Cupid costume by saying he had a blind date. Turned out to be more true than he knew when Calix walked in and asked to share his table. But there was something strange about the male and Jerret didn't believe in commitments or love. Right?

Dillon and his family move to Gretna, Nebraska. It seems relatively normal and not as rural as he thought. He meets Mark, and they become close friends, both trying to figure out their feelings.

Aaron thought nothing would be different in his new town of Ridgton. Instead, nothing is the same. When he meets Chris, he finds not only a fellow baseball player, but a close friend – one who gives him the courage to explore the things about himself he's been hiding.

A tale about a little boy, who has a lesson about little boys, is stolen by a troll, and enslaved by gnomic magic; and, a sorcerer who thinks he has failed is given the secret of magic.