Stories

A novel in twelve chapters.

It’s springtime in the Italian mountain town of Ravello, and the community is just starting to wake up for the new tourist season. But something isn’t quite right: businesses are being attacked, and the police are nowhere to be seen.

Into the midst of all this comes twelve-year-old Daniele Ferrero, a kind and gentle boy who dreams of being a hero but really just wants a friend his own age. One night, when he follows a boy he sort of likes, he gets caught up in a dangerous game that will test his faith in humanity.

Seventeen year-old Will Waters came out in a small Idaho town when he was fifteen. The story details the consequences and the actions Will takes to deal with the rejection of his family, his church, and his friends.

The sequel to my popular "Ranch Hands' book (on Amazon and other sites for sale).
This version was written in 2012, but another version was suggested, which was published in 2012 as well.
I've supplied both of them here for you so you can decided, which one should've made the cut?

Four queer boys from very different backgrounds come of age together in their final school years, learning what it truly means to love and to hate, to cry and to laugh, to struggle and to succeed.

Having recently lost his second parent, Huon Davenport meets a stranger from Europe, who has a story about their fathers, when they were students at Oxford University.

Meanwhile, Huon is discovered to have a singing talent, which his school friend, and his friends mother, the schools chaplain, try to encourage him to continue.

After completing my trek up to Kilimanjaro for the first time since my Tasmanian incident, I decided that although I loved being in Tanzania, that I needed to look into the future, and to do that I needed to attend University, so I decided to head back to Australia and my home state of South Australia.

Join us as we follow Jacob Simba Blackwood's next adventures, along with his mates Will Hammond and Chris Harding.

Four years ago as a college sophomore, Jason betrayed his best friend and roommate. Now he has a second chance...will he have the courage to take it?

Elijah's clever and Elijah's hot. Elijah thinks he's got it all figured out. Follow his life in the build-up to university--in which he discovers that, actually, he hasn't got a clue.

Toto is sixteen and in love with his best friend. Michele doesn’t seem to mind, but he never seems to have felt the same way.

It’s the end of the school year, and Toto is looking forward to spending a long, languid summer together, exploring the hills around their home town of Ravello, but the arrival of new friends brings unexpected twists and turns in their lives.

Follow Toto and Michele through a summer of decision as they face tough choices about their future.

Can you imagine the future when you are thirteen years old? When you’ve lost everything? From the ruins of war in a bombed out town in Syria; the desperation of refugee camps; and slum cities in Turkey, the paramount goal is safety and the impossible: Europe. This story is of our time and does not shy away from harsh reality. There is abuse, exploitation, huge risk, suffering and pain, but there is also romance and a few good souls.